Piano Quotes - Page 24

• Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

  Boris Johnson

  Party, Book, Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

  Keith Jarrett

  Language, Speak, Grew

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• I'm not a great piano player.

  Norah Jones

  Player

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• You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

  Shooter Jennings

  Art, Drawing, Forever

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• Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

  Rachel Kushner

  Romantic Music, Orchestra, Flutes

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• I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

  Jayne Meadows

  Writing, Play

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• I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

  John Mahoney

  Father, Home, Men

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• Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

  Paul McCartney

  Rock And Roll, Ivory, Perfect

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• The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

  Billy Joel

  Beer, Men, Rock And Roll

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• I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Mom, Years, Lessons

  "Kristin Kreuk, Video-Game Vixen". Parade Interview, parade.com. February 26, 2009.

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• Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.

  Marian McPartland

  Jobs, Years, Good Job

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

  Marian McPartland

  Thinking, Hands, Looks

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• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Song, Auditions, Has Beens

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• I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

  Frank Ocean

  Play, Enjoy

  "Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

  Aaron Levie

  Weekend, Night, Play

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• I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

  Geddy Lee

  Practice, Discipline, Schedules

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• I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Musical, Singing, Music Love

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• I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

  Billy Preston

  Mom, Home, Player

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• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  Francine Pascal

  Play, People, Plot

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• Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

  Janel Parrish

  Passion, Play, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

  Janel Parrish

  Broadway, Six, Jazz

  "Skyler Shaye and Janel Parrish Worship at the Alter of the Bratz!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 24, 2007.

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• I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

  Suzi Quatro

  Brother, World, Environment

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• As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Used, Mellow

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• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

  Fiona Shaw

  Song, Play, Drawing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a piano player before I was a poet.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Player, Poet

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