Piano Quotes - Page 13

• I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.

  Stephen Curry

  School, Careers, Singing

  Source: www.thefreethinktank.com

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• I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family.

  Matt Snell

  Art, Cousin, Brother

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.

  Brendon Urie

  Running, Song, Baby

  Source: villaparkiliad.com

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• Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

  David Eagleman

  Jumping, Pieces, Keyboards

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.13, Vintage

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• I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I really like Chopin piano music. I really like Wendy Carlo's electronic music. I really like Miles Davis and John Mclaughlin jazz style. So I'm not only an old-school rocker, but I have to admit that I'm going to be listening to The Doors, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Bob Dylan many times a week.

  Gordon Raphael

  Old School, Doors, Guy

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• When I got to Performing Arts, within the first week, a few days, Bill Charlap walked in and couldn't read music but he's playing all these solos from Keith Emerson of ELP, and Rick Wakeman from Yes. Real impressive rock piano and keyboard things. And we had really, truly amazing young 13-14 year old classical players in our year who had been practicing six, eight hours a day for eight years. So it was like "Whoa."

  Jon Gordon

  Art, Real, Player

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• When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

  Agnes Obel

  Beautiful, Nice, Piano Music

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.

  E-40

  Play, Instruments, Ifs

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.

  Geoff Downes

  Hands, Keyboards, Acoustics

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. My mother wrote an original song to teach me the days of the week.

  India.Arie

  Mother, Song, Uncles

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

  Tori Amos

  Two, Half, Firsts

  "This much I know: Tori Amos". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

  Tori Amos

  Player, Singers, Realizing

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• I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

  Tori Amos

  Two, Baltimore, Scholarship

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• My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Morning, Kings

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• When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teenager, Land, Bars

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• I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Girl, Voice, Three

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• Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

  David Bowie

  Heathen, Mines

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• The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

  Jane Campion

  Television, Ends

  "Jane Campion says feature films can be conservative" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2012.

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• My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Mother, Teaching

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• I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!

  George Clooney

  Girl, Dream, Nice

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• I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Philosophical, Player, Years

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• I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Kids, Play, Littles

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• My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Mother, Dad, New Orleans

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• You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Kids, Careers, Broadway

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• Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

  Caroline Corr

  Writing, Yeah, Basics

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May 2005.

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