Piano Quotes - Page 40

• I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

  Alicia Keys

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• I can't really remember my life without movies... [Growing up in Hollywood] is no different really. I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

  Elle Fanning

  Growing Up, Kids, Play

  "Women in Hollywood 2012", www.elle.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

  Connie Francis

  Song, Taken, Wish

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• I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

  Elton John

  Writing, Can Do, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

  Rufus Wainwright

  Guitar, Lovers, Married

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• Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?

  Dannii Minogue

  Thinking, Acting, Lessons

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• It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now.

  Dudley Moore

  Thinking, People, Comedian

  "Jazz Professional", Interview, 1966.

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• My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

  Johnny Winter

  Music, Mother, House

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

  Josh Groban

  Home, Race, Waiting

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• I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

  John Tesh

  Jobs, Mean, Musician

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• If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

  Ricky Martin

  Player, Would Be, Lifetime

  "Ricky Martin: 'I hated it when people tried to force me to come out'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2011.

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• With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

  Placido Domingo

  Voice, Preparation, Half

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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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