Piano Quotes - Page 36

• I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago. I also like playing piano, and I love being with my family and friends.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Sports, Golf, Love Is

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• I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Play, Earth, Chamber Music

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• I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Teaching, Play, Musician

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• I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.

  Melvin Van Peebles

  Writing, Keys, Numbers

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 14, 2013.

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• With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

  John Cage

  Numbers, Musician, Keyboards

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• The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.

  Andy Kim

  Song, Couple, Inspiration

  "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.

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• I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

  William Golding

  Years, Play, Sitting

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• I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.

  Ashley Bryan

  Way, Environment

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• If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Pain, Swimming

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• I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to learn how to play the trumpet and the saxophone. That's what I'm learning how to play.

  Mac Miller

  Guitar, Play, Trying

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• I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine.

  Simon Helberg

  Jobs, People, Shining

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• Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that feels and sounds good, and sometimes you only hear the trumpet or just the bass and piano. Sometimes all four are playing at the same time, but perhaps at different volume.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Ideas, Trying, Balance

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Trying, Sound

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• Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

  Elton John

  Player

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• I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls with abnormally long fingers sit down at a piano. Blending in, going unseen, being a shadow in the sun is what I'm good at. Seeing the shadows, it turns out, is not my natural gift.

  Ally Carter

  Basketball, Girl, Hate

  Ally Carter (2011). “Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Keys, Keyboards, Flew

  Gustave Flaubert (1964). “Madame Bovary”

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• In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Father, Glasses, Water

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.67, A&C Black

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• And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

  Amy Tan

  Betrayal, Years, Benches

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• Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn them into a usable story ten minutes before deadline? I don't think so, unless you have more hidden talents I don't know about. We all have our special sills. They don't make us better or worse than each other. Just different

  Jennifer Estep

  Karma, Thinking, Play

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• She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

  Eric Roth

  Play, Missing, Taught

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• Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, This Girl, Going To Work

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• Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

  David Levithan

  Practice, Making Love, Noise

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.16, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

  Tom Robbins

  Moon, Keys, Blood

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.58, Bantam

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• When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

  Louis Sachar

  Fall, Sunset, Thinking

  Louis Sachar (2010). “The Cardturner”, p.253, A&C Black

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• Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Eye, Unity

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