Piano Quotes - Page 14

• I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Guitar, Ukulele, Play

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• Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Beautiful, Two, Black

  "Zooey Deschanel Can Play the Ukulele". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

  Placido Domingo

  Reduction, Score

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• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Funny, Music, Dream

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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• Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

  Roberta Flack

  Real, Book, Color

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• Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

  Jamie Foxx

  Beautiful, College, Play

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• I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

  Lady Gaga

  Years, Expensive

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• All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

  Martin Gore

  Daughter, Kids, Son

  "Martin Gore on new Depeche Mode CD, Frank Ocean". Interview With Mesfin Fekadu, music.yahoo.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

  Martin Gore

  Guitar, Atmosphere, Mouths

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• I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.

  Daphne Guinness

  Fun, Mean, Play

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• I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Guitar, Age, Lessons

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• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

  Eddie Van Halen

  Beach, Crazy, Kids

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Mean, Guitar, Perfect

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• I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

  Herbie Hancock

  Solo

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• Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

  Benny Hill

  Funny, Girl, Hilarious

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Play, Brain, Fingers

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• I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

  T. D. Jakes

  Church, Ministry, Grew Up

  "Mega Church Leader Bishop T.D. Jakes". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 2, 2006.

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• I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

  Penn Jillette

  Color, Bass, Matching

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

  Elton John

  Giving Up, Looks, Gone

  "Elton John: 'When I was on drugs there was a monstrous side to me'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2013.

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• When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

  Elton John

  Rocks, Play, Two

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. 12 November, 2006.

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• In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

  Norah Jones

  Weekend, College, Best Practices

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• My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

  Rashida Jones

  Reading, Games, Crosswords

  "20Q: Rashida Jones". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

  Miranda Kerr

  Grandmother, Singing, Sitting

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• When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

  Alicia Keys

  New York, Kids, Concrete Jungle

  "I love Chopin. He's my dawg". Interview with Ian Gittins, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2001.

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• Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

  Hugh Laurie

  Musical, Taught, Formal

  "Hugh Laurie Puts Blues In The House". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 18, 2013.

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