Piano Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

  Joan Armatrading

  Mother, Song, Writing

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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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• 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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• With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

  Luc Ferrari

  Play, Pieces, Impossible

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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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• I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Serious

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

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• I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

  Aimee Mann

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

  Chrisette Michele

  Player, Female

  "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standingMay 20, 2009". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

  Benny Carter

  House, Want, Oscars

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