Pedals Quotes

• Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.

  Victor Borge

  Two, Piano, People

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• You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Keys, Play, Right Time

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• Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

  Garth Stein

  Rain, Want, Eggshells

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

  David Gilmour

  Couple, Thinking, Guitar

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• Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Learning, Bike

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

  Steven Chu

  Energy, World, Dinosaurs

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• When in doubt, make funny faces.

  Amy Poehler

  Doubt, Diapers, Faces

  "Amy Poehler: The Seriously Funny Interview". Interview With Joel Keller, www.thedailybeast.com. April 9, 2009.

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• Always remember your kid's name.

  Amy Poehler

  Kids, Names, Diapers

  "Amy Poehler: The Seriously Funny Interview". Interview with Joel Keller, www.thedailybeast.com. April 9, 2009.

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• Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.

  Linwood Barclay

  Car, Reputation, Switching

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• You have to push on both pedals to make the wheels go 'round. Similarly, you need faith in Christ as well as knowledge. The problem is that there are always Christians who want to push one pedal - either knowledge or experience. We need both.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Needs, Want

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Spiritual, Healing, Destiny

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• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Figure Skating, Figures

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• Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.

  Neal Shusterman

  No Friends, Icy, Doe

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• If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

  Douglas Wilson

  Water, Carbon, Mankind

  "Wilson-Till Debate". Credenda/Agenda Magazine (Vol. 7; No. 1), infidels.org.

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• When you first try to learn to ride a bike, you work very carefully at keeping your balance, and trying to keep one pedal in front of the other, and all that, and all of a sudden, ah, you know, I got it. And that's true of skiing, or it's true of all kinds of things.

  Darold Treffert

  Balance, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Travel, Pain, Eye

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• I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.

  Fabian Cancellara

  Special, Gears, Trials

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• He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...

  J. K. Rowling

  Healing, Hair, Wind

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• When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

  John Barrowman

  Children, Niece, Heart

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• The pedal is the soul of the piano.

  Anton Rubinstein

  Piano, Soul

  Anton Rubinstein, Teresa Carreño (2013). “The Art of Piano Pedaling: Two Classic Guides”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

  Patrick Carney

  Kids, Eye, Feet

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• For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

  Michael Azerrad

  Car, Ferrari, Labels

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• I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

  Nikki Sixx

  Player, Guitar, Lines

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Thinking, Differences

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