Piano Quotes - Page 3

• It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

  Dave Brubeck

  Piano Music, Orchestra, Jazz

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• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Eye

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

  Artur Schnabel

  Funny, Music, Art

  Quoted in Chicago Daily News, 11 June 1958

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• I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It's totally reliable and it's alive. I can hear what it's saying.

  Tori Amos

  Moving, Player, Emotional

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• Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

  Norah Jones

  Piano Music, Hands, Know How

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

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• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Art, Inspiration

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• The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspirational, Music, Art

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• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

  Samuel Barber

  Music, Football, Destiny

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

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• The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

  Al Capp

  Music, Keys, Poke

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• My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Music, Wisdom

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

  Mike Figgis

  Guitar, Play, Trumpets

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• Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Suffering

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

  Andres Segovia

  Music, Monsters, Teeth

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• I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

  Frederic Chopin

  Used

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• One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

  Paul McCartney

  Music, Song, Guitar

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• If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

  Harry S. Truman

  Player, House, Political

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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• When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

  Bob Hope

  Music, Play, Names

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• Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Music, Differences, Violin

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• I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

  Lady Gaga

  Lonely, Television, Quiet

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• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sister, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1982). “The annotated Oscar Wilde”

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• PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Music, Keys

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.224, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

  Travis Barker

  Men, Juniors, Junior High

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• Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Passion, Play, Hobbies

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• In opera, there is always too much singing.

  Claude Debussy

  Funny, Music, Singing

  "Debussy". Book by Paul Holmes, 1989.

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• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Writing, Garden

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