Piano Quotes - Page 25

• Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

  Jeff Lynne

  Guitar, Play, Bass

  "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  New York, Numbers, Dancing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

  Alicia Vikander

  Teacher, Stars, Two

  "TIFF FUTURES: ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘A Royal Affair’ Star Alicia Vikander is Getting Her Fair Share of Corset Training". www.indiewire.com. September 07, 2012.

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• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  K. D. Lang

  Kids, Listening, Singing

  "KD Lang: 'I get completely drawn in'" by KD Lang, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

  Cristin Milioti

  School, Aunt, Simple

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• I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

  Rohinton Mistry

  School, Class, Voice

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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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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• I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

  Tom Verlaine

  Lessons, Grew Up, Grades

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• I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.

  Rebecca Wells

  Girl, Mother, Creativity

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• Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

  Robert Glasper

  People, Black, Would Be

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• I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

  John Mayall

  Art, School, Play

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• Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Laughing, Achievement, Singing

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• You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Laughter, Memories, Home

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• I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Simple, Years, Play

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• The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Powerful, Real, Book

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• I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

  George Gershwin

  Littles, Talent, Gershwin

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• Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

  Rian Johnson

  Kids, Failing, Like You

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• I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

  Abel Korzeniowski

  Pieces, Firsts, Grades

  "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.

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• I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Years, Long

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• One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

  William Hague

  Book, One Day

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• There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

  Ernie Isley

  Mom, Home, Church

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• Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Song, Inspiration, Hard Work

  "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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• I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Husband, Moving, People

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• I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

  Lukas Haas

  Guitar, Long, Bass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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