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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• A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Play, People

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• But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

  Gary Burton

  Emotional, Player, Expression

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• Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mean, Player, Bass

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• To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Trying, Unemployment, Stools

  Henry Hazlitt (2016). “The Failure of the "New Economics": An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies”, p.542, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense. Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational. Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come. I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Brother, Careers, Voice

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• I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

  Sean Lennon

  Guitar, Two, Helping

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

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• Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

  Billy Sunday

  Home, Needs, Deals

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

  Agnes Obel

  Two, Voice, Singing

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

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• I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

  Debra Wilson

  Guitar

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• A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  People, Sound, Pieces

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• When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.

  Robert Greenberg

  Dental Floss, Hands, Wind

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• In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

  Alma Gluck

  Voice, Study, Cases

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• My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Mother, Hands, Play

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• My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

  Michel Legrand

  Mother, Father, Home

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• I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

  Michel Legrand

  Home, Want, Steinway

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• It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

  Victor de Laprade

  Music, Infinite, Invisible

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• If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

  John Cage

  Music, Meaningful, Organization

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

  John Cage

  Music, Criticism, Instruments

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• The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

  Cary Fowler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Past

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• My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Grandmother, Littles, Little Things

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• Remember the music is not in the piano.

  Clement Mok

  Remember, Music Is

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• I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

  Sarah Zettel

  Fall, Character, Long

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• I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

  Colin Hay

  Mother, Father, Guitar

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• I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Teacher, Orchestra, Way

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