Piano Quotes - Page 20

• For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, School, Keys

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.170, Penguin

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• It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.

  Robert Schumann

  Running, Dream, Vision

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• Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body’s frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You’ve in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.

  Heather King

  Prayer, Writing, Heart

  Heather King (2015). “Stripped: At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture, and Christ”, p.38, Loyola Press

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• I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

  Pinetop Perkins

  Play, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

  Charles Ives

  Music, Song, Rights

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• The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Believe, Important

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• People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; or for no reason whatsoever.

  Robert Schumann

  Beautiful, Eye, People

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• First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

  Oscar Peterson

  Men, Practice, Two

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• What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!

  Alan Carr

  Funny, Gay, Wigs

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• It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Play, League

  "'If I Fell in a Barrel of Boobs, I'd Come Out Sucking My Thumb!' - the Wisdom of Ian Holloway". www.standard.co.uk. May 24, 2010.

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• The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Kids, Weekend

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• In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

  Pierre Danos

  Play, Rugby

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• Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced by the "logic piano" imagined by Stanley Jevons; or, if you choose, a machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

  Henri Poincare

  Mean, Math, Pigs

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• I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

  Debbie Gibson

  Kids, Thinking, Practice

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• Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

  Matthew Shipp

  Piano Playing, Bud, Influence

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• We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

  James Young

  Player, Years, Albums

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• I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

  Kip Winger

  Guitar, Play, Hard Life

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• I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her.

  Lady Gaga

  Play

  Lady Gaga‏ @ladygaga, twitter.com. January 10, 2015.

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• I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

  Ann Voskamp

  Practice, Want

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• Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Play, Nurse, Office

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• For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

  Matt Damon

  Song, Play

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• I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

  Eric Stoltz

  Years, Play, Enjoy

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• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  Warren Zevon

  Rocks, Littles, Rock N Roll

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• Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?

  Douglas Adams

  Flower, Sunset, Twenties

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.78, Del Rey

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• Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

  Pat Ament

  Climbing, Effort, Feelings

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