Piano Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano

  Lionel

  Thinking, Get Better, Vibes

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• He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.

  Jerry Wexler

  Teacher, Player, Acknowledge Him

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• God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

  Karen Walker

  Compassion, Play, Giving

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• Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Dog, Wall

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• This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Dust, Perfect

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.85

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• The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

  Albie Sachs

  Music, Relief, Scratches

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• Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.

  Nils Frahm

  Hurt, Important, Doe

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• My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

  Tod Machover

  Simple, Instruments, Hyper

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• I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

  Steve Kazee

  Guitar, Years, Play

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Music, Play, Singing

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• No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

  Milan Kundera

  Music, Two, White

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• Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Father, Years, Two

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• Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

  Mao Zedong

  Play, Differences, Produce

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.110, China Books

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• Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

  Warren Zevon

  Remember, Wells, I Can

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• "Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.

  Paul Fussell

  War, Nice, Secret

  "The Initial Shock... A Conversation with Paul Fussell". Humanities, November/December 1996.

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• I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Kids, Play, Littles

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• There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

  Moss Hart

  Family, Wire, Umbilical Cord

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

  Alan Lightman

  Moving, Wrestling, Play

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