Piano Quotes - Page 39

• Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

  Artur Schnabel

  Learning, Simple, Play

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• Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third.

  Frances Elliott Clark

  Teaching, Firsts, Students

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• Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

  Frank Schoonmaker

  Wine, Smell, Five Senses

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• Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Golf, People

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• It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Long, Musician

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• A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Knowing, Play

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

  Frederic Loewe

  Music, Writing, Together Again

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• I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

  Lamont Dozier

  Moving, Thinking, Trying

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• Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

  Jack Black

  Music, Irises, Used

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• Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the cue to the piano player-I never got to know him: a long dark, evil-looking brother, with hands made for strangling; and with these hands he attacked the keyboard like he was beating the brains out of someone he remembered. No doubt the congregation had their memories, too, and they went to pieces. The church began to rock.

  James A. Baldwin

  Music, Brother, Memories

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• The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Stars, Giving

  "Afterthoughts". Book by Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931.

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• I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

  Fritzie Zivic

  Boxing, Giving, Balls

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• I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.

  Evgeny Kissin

  Play, Wish, World

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• Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

  Maurizio Pollini

  World, Steinway

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• My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

  Krystian Zimerman

  Beautiful, Important, Steinway

  "Steinways" by George Wright, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2003.

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• But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Soul, Way, Study

  "Isabelle Huppert (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

  Jayma Mays

  Growing Up, Home, Virginia

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

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• I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

  Tobe Hooper

  Children, Moving, Creating

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• They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

  Clark Gable

  Construction Workers, Guy, Ordinary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

  Diana Krall

  Honor, Privilege, Steinway

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• My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician

  Ethel Merman

  Father, Play, People

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

  Jim Parsons

  Strong, Age, Interest

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

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• I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like a piano, and there are 88 keys, and there are some white keys and some black keys, and each character is a different chord on the piano. Basically, I hope that in the course of my life, I will have played all 88 keys. So, I’ll have played heroes and villains and princes and kings and warriors and beggars and thieves and lovers and fathers and wizards and all of those things. That is why I’m an actor… I love studying people.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Kings, Father, Hero

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• Mum’s a musician. She plays piano and has a beautiful voice, so she understands the creative need. Mum lights up when she sees me. Her cheeks go pink – she’s all over me, pulling my hair, pinching my cheeks.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Beautiful, Play, Voice

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• I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

  John Stamos

  Girl, Song, Night

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