Piano Music Quotes

• When you play, never mind who listens to you.

  Robert Schumann

  Music, Play, Piano

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10

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• Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

  Tom Lehrer

  Life, Music, Play

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• The piano has been drinking, not me.

  Tom Waits

  Music, Drinking, Piano

  Song: The Piano Has Been Drinking, Album: Small Change

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• The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

  Andres Segovia

  Music, Piano, Monsters

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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• Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Art, Simple

  "If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent". Book by Joshua Fost (p. 93), November 16, 2007.

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• Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, Hurt, Piano

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• Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

  Norah Jones

  Hands, Know How, Knows

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

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• The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Mean, Air

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• In opera, there is always too much singing.

  Claude Debussy

  Funny, Music, Piano

  "Debussy". Book by Paul Holmes, 1989.

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• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Music, People

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• I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

  Duke Ellington

  Funny, Music, Girl

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• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Funny, Music, Witty

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

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Music, Wisdom

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

  Artur Schnabel

  Music, Play, Piano

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• When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

  Bob Hope

  Music, Play, Names

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• Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcasm, Piano Playing

  Impressions of America (1906). The Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate, 20 Apr. 1883, describes an afterdinner speech made by Wilde in Paris about his experiences in the United States: "The brightest and best of the many stories he related was one to the effect that at a ball in Leadville he saw a notice over the piano which read: 'Please don't shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.' "

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• The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

  Jacques Barzun

  Music, Names, Piano

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

  William Gaddis

  Player, Piano Playing, Grandfather

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• No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Piano, Acoustics

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