Piano Quotes - Page 22

• I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

  Michael Cera

  Play, Goes On

  Interview with Jennifer Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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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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• I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Mother, Father, Light

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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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• I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  School, Lessons, Four

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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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• I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian gangster movies. I bet I could get Aru to buy the wire.

  Vincenzo Nibali

  Italian, Cycling, Wire

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• To master the piano is to master the universe.

  Russell Sherman

  Music, Masters, Universe

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• I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

  Hugh Jackman

  Guitar, Favour

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• It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

  Rene Coty

  Tunes, Pity, Pianist

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• This solo piano exploration (Beyond The Sky) by Rob Schwimmer is full of passion and love...his execution and ideas flow with a beautiful sense of freedom that captures you from his first phrase to the last.

  Joe Lovano

  Beautiful, Passion, Sky

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• Put a small piano in a truck and drive out on country roads; take time to discover new scenery; stop in a pretty place where there is a good church; upload the piano and tell the residents; give a concert; offer flowers to the people who have been so kind as to attend; leave again.

  Sviatoslav Richter

  Country, Flower, People

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• I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

  Kevin Kline

  Students, Mediocre, I Realized

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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 was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

  Peter Lawford

  Nice, Boys, Drawing

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