Piano Quotes - Page 32

• I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.

  Christian McKay

  School, Boys, Eight

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• My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

  Pete Seeger

  Mother, Father, Violin

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.

  Pete Seeger

  Mother, Song, Brother

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

  Richie Havens

  Father, Believe, Player

  "Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.

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• My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Song, Brother, Home

  "Josephine de la Baume on Mark & "Dreamcore" Style". Interview with Lauren Houssin, www.elle.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

  Max Schneider

  Guitar, Ukulele, Play

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• I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

  Josh Lieb

  Children, Hate, Safety

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• I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Mother, Father, Light

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• I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

  Alicia Witt

  Support, Competition, Circuits

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

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• I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Home, Tired, Proof

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• I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

  Blake Michael

  Dad, Thinking, Ears

  "Meet the Cast of Lemonade Mouth!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. April 13, 2011.

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• I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

  Billy Joel

  Long, Consistency, Quality

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• A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

  Meg Rosoff

  Nice, Fall, Might

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• Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

  Charlie Chaplin

  Thinking, Practice, Violin

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• Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Artist, Way

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• My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

  Chuck Brown

  Guitar, Years, Church

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• Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Art, Fall, Play

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• I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

  Anton Chekhov

  Heart, Night, Keys

  Anton Chekhov (2003). “Chekhov: The Essential Plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters & The Cherry Orchard”, p.189, Modern Library

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• I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano, violin, cornet or French horn. I had to be pulled away from any athletic participation. Now, at 63, I look back on my athletic feats - All-American, All-Pro Quaterback, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame - and I can honestly say I would trade these all if I had been smart enough to pursue my musical career. YOUNG PEOPLE - don't make the same mistake.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Smart, Mistake

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• I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I used to play around with that; they showed me how to read music and I used to play to them.

  Richard Meale

  Couple, Doors, Play

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.

  Richard Meale

  Bored, Sound, Manuscripts

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.

  John Legend

  Mother, Years, Musical

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www-s4.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

  Marsha Norman

  Writing, Grew Up, Grew

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• It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Violin, Beloved, Destination

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