Piano Quotes - Page 38

• Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

  Mark Twain

  Musical, Age, Teeth

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5802, Delphi Classics

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• To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

  Michel Legrand

  Music, Spiritual, Play

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• A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Douglas

  Teamwork, Football, Men

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• The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Artist, Grieving, Dust

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• With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

  Jane Campion

  Stars, Sadness, Different

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

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• I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

  Enya

  Travel, Journey, Might

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Sleep, Cat, Ledges

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• Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Music, Echoes, Voice

  Giuseppe Mazzini, Emilie Ashurst Venturi (2004). “Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: (1836) : Envisioning a Social Opera”, Edwin Mellen Pr

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• I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

  James McGreevey

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

  Chris Daughtry

  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

  Andy Peebles

  Funny, Loss, Men

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• If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

  Simon Rattle

  Music, Composer, Composing

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• My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have to learn to type, and to me, that has nothing to do with music.

  Ryo Kawasaki

  Music, Mother, Lessons

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• I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

  Ronald Harwood

  Lovely, Radio, Fades

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• A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He would have wished that he would be remembered as an opera composer, but it was to be his orchestral extravaganzas, mainly the trilogy of Roman pictures that has made his name famous.

  Ottorino Respighi

  Work, Europe, Names

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• At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Music, Names, Long

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.

  Paula Cole

  Beautiful, Girl, Song

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• I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full bladder. I can't stand hearing a poem that I can't see. I did a reading at Wayne State, and it ended with the comedy such occasions deserve. I'd seated myself on a piano bench, and discovered upon attempting to arise at the end that the varnish had softened and I was stuck fast. The hinge was to the front, under my knees, so that as I tried to get up, I merely opened the lid.

  Ted Kooser

  Reading, Benches, Addresses

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• I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.

  Robert Pattinson

  Music, Three, Has Beens

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

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• Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

  Cootie Williams

  Memorable, Player, Bird

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• Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.

  Eddie Heywood

  Giving Up, Memorable, Play

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• Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

  Leigh Hunt

  Music, Wisdom, Heart

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• Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Wisdom, Stress

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• Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

  Agnes Obel

  Littles, Sometimes, Melody

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

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• Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Writing, Novelists, Division

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