Piano Quotes - Page 35

• I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

  Steven Price

  House, Used, Backgrounds

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.

  Daniel Rossen

  Player, Guitar, Perspective

  "Grizzly Bear". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

  AraabMuzik

  Writing, Play, Musician

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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• The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

  James Levine

  Today, Finest, Steinway

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• I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

  Alfred Brendel

  Mean, Want, Steinway

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• I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Choices, Three, Steinway

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• Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

  Billy Taylor

  Tone, Action, Finest

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• If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

  Tim Minchin

  Believe, Afterlife, Giving

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• I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

  Paul McCartney

  Singing, Gears, Mahler

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• My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

  Kim Basinger

  Hurt, Dad, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

  Dallas Willard

  Practice, Play, Discipline

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• Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

  Kenny Werner

  Beautiful, Play, Sound

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Hands, Play

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• I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.

  Tod Machover

  School, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

  Tod Machover

  Mean, Keys, Ivory

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

  Chris Isaak

  Play, Want, Grew Up

  "Chris Isaak Pays Tribute To Sun Studio's Golden Years". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 27, 2011.

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• We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a church. It was just shitty fluorescent lights and a small stage piano, but this band tore it up.

  Penn Dayton Badgley

  Light, Church, Band

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

  Carl Andre

  Study

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

  Miranda Kerr

  Needs, Lessons, Want

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when I was 6 and I just did it. I attempted lessons but I was just so bad at reading notes. I would read "Three Blind Mice" by ear, so learning notes was almost impossible.

  Christina Grimmie

  Song, Couple, Dad

  Source: joonbug.com

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• I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with melodies that would sound familiar. Rather than trying to do music that I want to do, I focused on doing music that I want my fans to hear.

  Seungri

  Guitar, Trying, Sound

  "[INTERVIEW] Big Bang member Seungri". Interview with Kwon Seok-jung, en.tenasia.com. August 27, 2013.

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• After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

  Jeff Britting

  Writing, Play, Scripts

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.

  Paul Smith

  Home, School, Lessons

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• At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.

  Paul Smith

  Dream, School, Play

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• It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

  Paul Smith

  Priorities, Lessons, Classical Music

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