Piano Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• In my spare time, I’ve been playing a lot of piano. I’m trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It’s fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

  Evan Peters

  Couple, Fun, Sight

  "‘American Horror Story’ Star Evan Peters Talks New Thriller, Working With Ryan Murphy". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

  William Gaddis

  Player, Piano Music, Piano Playing

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• A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

  Lucille Kallen

  Music, Running, Justice

  Lucille Kallen (1979). “Introducing C. B. Greenfield”, Crown Pub

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• I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Boundaries

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

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• I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Play, People, Guy

  "Gavin DeGraw remembers NYC struggles, knows his place" by Carolyn E. Davis, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2005.

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• Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

  Barbara Ann Scott

  Exercise, Discipline, Fingers

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• I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

  Robert Quine

  Lessons, Piano Lesson, Unpleasant Experiences

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• I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

  Mike Figgis

  Guitar, Play, Actors

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• Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

  Victor Borge

  People, Legs, Arms

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• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  Barry Mann

  Guitar, Being Played, Purity

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, America, Dancing

  Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

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• Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

  Mick Ralphs

  Guitar, Certain

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• The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

  Warren Zevon

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Said

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• A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

  Ramon Gomez de la Serna

  Music, Funeral, Looks

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• Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Player, Thinking

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• My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

  Dick Dale

  Aunt, Used

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.

  Victor Borge

  Two, People, Three

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• I don't like piano solos.

  Warren Zevon

  Solo

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• Piano is like drudgery.

  Warren Zevon

  Drudgery

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• I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

  Kevin Kline

  Rooms, Drag, Magnetic

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• The piano is kind of my second instrument.

  Bill Bruford

  Kind, Instruments

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• I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

  Michael Weatherly

  Girl, Team, School

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• Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

  Cy Coleman

  Left Behind, Apartment, Behinds

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