Piano Quotes - Page 27

• The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

  Alice Coltrane

  Heart, Soul, Spirit

  "Alice Coltrane, Wife of John, Left Her Own Mark". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 16, 2007.

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• That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

  Morton Gould

  Fundamentals, Done, Conducting

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• Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.

  Randall Jarrell

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Air

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 127), 1955.

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• The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

  Victor Borge

  Long, Firsts, Built

  "The Very Best of Victor Borge". Book by Victor Borge, 1995.

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• A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your biological rhythms are actually mirroring the symphony of the universe because you have circadian rhythms, seasonal rhythms, tidal rhythms you know they mirror everything that is happening in the whole universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Baby, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

  David Luiz

  Player, Consistency, Listening

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• To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

  John French Sloan

  Eye, Play, Color

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• I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

  Billy Joel

  Mother, Years, Lessons

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• I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.

  Yoochun

  Play, Pieces, Letters

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• I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

  Oscar Levant

  Play, Attractive

  "Fictional character: Sid Jeffers". "Humoresque", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

  Tom Waits

  Hands, Sitting, Shovels

  1999 In the Dallas Observer, 6 May.

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• Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.

  Charles Bukowski

  Play, Drunk, Instruments

  1979 Title of book.

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• My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

  Nick Cave

  Responsibility, Artist, Pages

  The Daily Telegraph, Novevember 20, 1997.

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• Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.'

  Stevie Nicks

  Guitar, Sky, House

  "Rumours Exposed: The Unauthorized Biography of Fleetwood Mac". Book by Leah Furman, 2003.

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• One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to go

  Rufus Wainwright

  Dad, Glasses, Worry

  Song: Montauk, Album: Out of the Game, 2012

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• Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Guitar, Play, Trying

  "Swingin' Chicks of the '60s: A Tribute to 101 of the Decade's Defining Women". Book by Chris Strodder, 2000.

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• I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

  Michael Cretu

  Writing

  Contemporary Musicians Vol. 14, May 1995.

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• You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.

  Aaron Copland

  Powerful, Book, Reading

  Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin

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• I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Guitar, Play, Quality

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• I play piano and write better than I can sing.

  Irene Cara

  Writing, Play, I Can

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• I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.

  Marjoe Gortner

  Views, Practice, People

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• I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.

  Andrew W.K.

  Moving, Keys, Childhood

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.

  Will Smith

  Dream, Home, Thinking

  "Mr. and Mr. Smith: Will and Jaden Psych Up for After Earth". Interview With Claire Hoffman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

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• I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

  Monica Raymund

  Art, School, Age

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• I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

  Condola Rashad

  Passion, Four, Firsts

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