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• Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  Ani DiFranco

  Love, Music, Stories

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• You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

  Steve Harvey

  Race, Class, Giving

  "Steve At Ease". Interview with Kam Williams, www.insightnews.com. April 20, 2012.

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• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  E. W. Howe

  Music, People, Singing

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• I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

  Billy Joel

  New York, Book, Kids

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• I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Player

  "A star is reborn". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

  Robert Schumann

  Beautiful, Writing, Eye

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• I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

  Jamie Foxx

  Fun, Grandmother, College

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• Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Motivational, Music

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• I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

  Duke Ellington

  Funny, Music, Girl

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• My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.

  Frederic Chopin

  Dream, Country, People

  "Fryderyk Chopin, Korespondencja Fryderyka Chopina". Book by Bronisław Edward Sydow, (2 vols.), Vol. 1, p. 443, 1955.

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• In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Way, Trauma, Huge

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Believe, Ideas

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• Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, Hurt, Feelings

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

  Artur Schnabel

  Music, Play, Keyboards

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• The piano has been drinking, not me.

  Tom Waits

  Music, Drinking, Drugs And Alcohol

  Song: The Piano Has Been Drinking, Album: Small Change

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• In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

  Theodore E. Steinway

  Iron, May, Pounds

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• I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

  Bob Newhart

  Funny, Music, Country

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• I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano

  Ethel Merman

  Trust, Men

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Girl, Smart, Play

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• I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

  Jack Black

  Rocks, Years, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Jan 04, 2014

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• My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, Father

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

  Frederic Chopin

  Artist, People, Said

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Funny, Music, Witty

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

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• I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.

  Nina Simone

  School, Years, People

  Source: boscarol.com

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