Piano Playing Quotes - Page 2

• In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.

  Max Richter

  Piano, Normal, Happy Accidents

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

  Brian Wilson

  Play, Piano, Playing Music

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• In the last workshop I taught, a woman flew in from Thailand. She's a medical doctor in Bangkok. I asked her in her one-on-one session where she wanted photography to be in her life.Did she want a second career? Was it about earning money? Or was it art? And she said "None of those. I want photography to be serious in my life." It would be like someone wanting music, like piano playing, to be a richer, deeper, and maybe even harder experience.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Art, Doctors

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.

  Nina Simone

  Piano, Style, Different

  Source: boscarol.com

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• One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

  Alfred Doblin

  Daughter, Father, Piano

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• Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

  Colin Davis

  Breathing, Piano, Singing

  "Sir Colin Davis obituary" by David Nice, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2013.

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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, Piano

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

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• Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Inspirational, Keys, Ivory

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• Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Relationship, Drama, Book

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• Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

  Betsy Byars

  Baseball, Writing, Piano

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• When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.

  Alicia Keys

  Song, Couple, Talking

  "6 Questions With Alicia Keys". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. October 20, 2005.

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• I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

  Steve Young

  Piano, Guitar, Guy

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Art, Emotional, Piano

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• I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

  Anne Tyler

  Husband, Mean, Thinking

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• Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

  Matthew Shipp

  Piano, Bud, Influence

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