Piano Quotes - Page 10

• My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.

  Sean Mackin

  Mom, Art, Growing Up

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• Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if it's an orchestra, two bluegrass banjo pickers, a solo singer, piano player, or Bruce Springsteen - when it all comes together, you can just feel as if you are a part of something bigger and grander than yourself.

  Patrick Fabian

  Player, Two, Together

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, patrickfabian.com.

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• I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. Marc 18, 2008.

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• Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So you're coming up with, like, these - you hear these songs that are quite bare-bones, and you dream up what's the band doing? What's the rhythm section doing? What's the guitars, strings, pianos - that sort of thing. It's almost like a little toolbox.

  Mark Ronson

  Dream, Song, Guitar

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of mine, but I really never had the courage to actually go and do it professionally.

  Paris Hilton

  Dream, Years, Singing

  "Paris Hilton: 'I think I am a good role model'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. August 17, 2006.

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• I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Dad, Father, Play

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". Interview with Robert Siegel, wrti.org. June 12, 2015.

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• My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

  Condola Rashad

  Art, Years, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."

  Colin Munroe

  Play, Parent, Way

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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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• Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

  George Carlin

  Practice, Waste, Comedy

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• My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

  Nikki Jean

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.

  Kate Bush

  Father, Littles, Stuff

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

  Nina Simone

  Song, Writing, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.

  Aphex Twin

  Play, Work Out, Keyboards

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity.

  Jade Hassoune

  Creativity, Skills, Space

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

  Jade Hassoune

  Play, Guitar, People

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that. It was almost spiritual. I couldn't believe that someone's mind created that. And, right, it felt like George Lucas had a piano that was playing my emotions, and he could go ahead and do whatever he wanted and make me lean forward if he wanted, or he could make me go oh, or he could make me hide my face.

  Will Smith

  Spiritual, Stars, War

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

  Frankie Cosmos

  Childhood, Wish, Quitting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way.

  Dan Millman

  Mom, Dream, Song

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• Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Mistake, Thinking, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love the morning time - a cup of coffee and to sit at the piano, that's probably my favorite time.

  Sara Bareilles

  Morning, Coffee, Cups

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

  Sara Bareilles

  Frustrated, Firsts, Get Up

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow piano players, I feel more of a connection to , now that I'm using the acoustic.

  Bill Orcutt

  Thinking, Player, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.

  Zeena Parkins

  Body, Harps, Instruments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!

  Volker Bertelmann

  Sometimes, Surprise, Concerts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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