Piano Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.

  Marketa Irglova

  Nice, Writing, Doors

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• In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

  Miranda Leek

  Beautiful, Keys, Archery

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• My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

  Miranda Leek

  Dad, Archery, Trying

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• My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.

  Miranda Leek

  Play, Goal, Rags

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• I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

  Miranda Leek

  School, College, Lessons

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• I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

  Page McConnell

  Song, Growing Up, Play

  ""Nightline Playlist: Page McConnell" by Howard L. Rosenberg". abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2008.

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• My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

  Willie Nelson

  Couple, Book, Grandmother

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.

  Ester Dean

  Teacher, Couple, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

  Ryan Adams

  Crazy, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

  Tori Amos

  Home, Technology, Feet

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• For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

  Pablo Casals

  Past, Years, Play

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• Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Nuts, Giving

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• False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Perfect, Doe, Notes

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• I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano. I sing with a symphony. I can sit and ask questions. I can listen. I'm very comfortable in most situations.

  Florence Henderson

  Symphony, People, Comfort

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• The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Waiting, Miracle, Cameras

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• Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

  Trent Reznor

  Play, Discipline, Trying

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• The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

  Branford Marsalis

  People, Tough Times, Structure

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• I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I'm afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words... and it's gonna stay there.

  Roy Harper

  Regret, Inspiration, Should Have

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• I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Skills, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Writing, Night

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

  Charles Hazlewood

  Hate, Fighting, Soul

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