Piano Quotes - Page 34

• Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.

  Michael Hersch

  Artist, Rome, Remarkable

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Whenever I record something, I always believe that it's worthy of inclusion in the pantheon, and I would certainly like pianists to pay more attention to it. I think it's ridiculous now, because the range of repertoire - or what's considered 'safe' - is so narrow, even though there are pianists who are really trying to push the envelope. There is still a lack of attention, and there's no reason for it. The piano repertoire is so rich, with so many wonderful things that still are not given their due.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.

  John Leguizamo

  Girl, Self, Expression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

  Barry Manilow

  Jobs, Writing, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I bet you can't play slide piano.

  Jimmy Page

  Play, Slides

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• Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

  Anthony Davis

  Believe, Hearing, Magician

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• Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was OK, records was cool, but when people wanted to party, they got around a piano. My mother played piano, my sister played. I've been around a lot of piano all my life.

  Dr. John

  Mother, Party, People

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• When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.

  Dr. John

  Art, Latin, Kids

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• Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

  George Polya

  Art, Swimming, Practice

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Color, Play, Perfect

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

  The Edge

  Guitar, Sound, Possibility

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• Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

  Graham Nash

  Song, Thinking, Guitar

  The Eye of the Acoustic Storm Interview, www.acousticstorm.com.

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• As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

  Allen Toussaint

  Children, Mean, Piano Music

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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• My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

  Laura Allen

  Brother, Dad, Play

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When I'm singing at the piano and I'm having a really nice fun day singing, if I have a headache, the headache will immediately dissipate just the notes going through my head.

  Gino Vannelli

  Fun, Nice, Singing

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• I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something. Just making something up, something that's not there, that suddenly is there.

  Bernard Fanning

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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

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• There weren't sidewalks to skateboard on and malls to hang out in. There wasn't anything to do. And I was too scrawny to play football, and so I decided I was just gonna sit at the piano, because it made more sense.

  John Fullbright

  Football, Play, Made

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

  Rebecca West

  Design, Made, Masters

  Rebecca West (2010). “Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

  I. M. Pei

  Piano Music, Listening, Mahler

  I. M. Pei, Gero von Boehm (2000). “Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key”, Prestel Pub

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• Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Writing, Men

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmüller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, Belknap Press

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• Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.

  Ray Charles

  Play, Buckets, Auditions

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• Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

  Joey Harrington

  Football, Creativity, Skills

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• I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.

  Tom Verlaine

  Lying, Writing, Rocks

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• All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.

  Sam Haskins

  Simple, Cameras, Use

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• Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.

  Andrea Gibson

  Keys, Ribs, Touch Me

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.37, SCB Distributors

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