Piano Quotes - Page 12

• If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.

  Elton John

  Feet, Nine, Kind

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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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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• I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque.

  Amos Oz

  Trying, Literature, Violin

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

  Nina Simone

  School, Eight, Work Out

  Source: boscarol.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

  Style, Different, Looks

  Source: boscarol.com

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• As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.

  Nina Simone

  Giving, Training, Radio

  Source: boscarol.com

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• I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

  Nina Simone

  Reality, Ideas, Made

  Source: boscarol.com

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• The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.

  Michael Snow

  Trying, Monsters, Done

  Source: offscreen.com

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• Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

  Alan Greenspan

  Play, Facts, Clarinet

  Source: www.today.com

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• The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

  Pauline Oliveros

  Sound, Different, Facts

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

  Reggie Watts

  Song, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.

  Reggie Watts

  Different, Three, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

  Reggie Watts

  Song, Sincere, Absurd

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

  Mac DeMarco

  Hands, Singing, Littles

  Source: lagroupie.tumblr.com

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• In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

  Richard Clayderman

  Facts, Pianist, Conservatory

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists.... Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no doubt that Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin were also fantastic piano players - though there is no way to listen to them when they were performing.

  Richard Clayderman

  Player, Years, Doubt

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled "Kazeno Komoriuta" and I have recorded my piano adaptation of this song and honestly I couldn't expect that it would be so difficult and challenging for me to perform my piano version of this beautiful song.

  Richard Clayderman

  Beautiful, Song, Names

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• [Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. And I was just stunned. This is a kid who used to work - on a piano with a cracked keyboard.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.

  Zach Condon

  Two, House, Tools

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.

  Ed Helms

  Song, Hangover, Scripts

  Source: movies.about.com

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• I was just fooling around with the piano and Todd [Phillips] was like, 'Hey there's a great spot in the movie [The Hangover] where we need a little bit of a breath in the narrative. You should write a song and stick it in there.' And I was like, 'Well, what should the song be about?' And he said, 'The tiger.' 'Oh, okay.' So I went off and I wrote this song. I came back and Todd and I tinkered with it a little more and then we shot it right then. It all happened in a day.

  Ed Helms

  Song, Hangover, Writing

  Source: movies.about.com

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• People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write songs and what goes into them. You can listen to Mountain Goats from 1991 to 2007 and never hear a seventh chord. In 2007 or 2008, I started working on the piano to grow as a songwriter. I started throwing major sevens in and sixes and more interesting stuff.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Guitar, Karaoke, Talent

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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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 Playing, Guitar, Guy

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

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• As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz stars, both now and in the past...how shall I say it? These guys are as great as Bach, Beethoven; all of them. People don't know it yet. If jazz survives and is put on a pedestal as an art form, the same as classical music has been through the years, a hundred years from now the kids will know who they were, with that kind of respect.

  Nina Simone

  Art, Stars, Kids

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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