Piano Quotes - Page 6

• Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

  Michala Petri

  Violin, Recorders, Courses

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• My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

  John Legend

  Mother, Years, Musical

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming up with melodies; but at the time I [still] just couldn't, so my early beats were really sample-based.

  Lunice

  Play, Used, Beats

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

  Drake Bell

  Morning, Writing, Bangs

  "Drake Bell Dishes On His New Album!". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist. He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day.

  Bill Crow

  Beautiful, Numbers, Air

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• Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and piano player Carl Perkins would die two years later. When the record was recorded I was behind bars myself. In 1955 I was caught with narcotics and had to serve almost five years. Luckily, I was allowed to keep my saxophone in the cell, and I composed a lot during the time. They had to come fetch the music for Playboys from jail.

  Jimmy Heath

  Art, Player, Cells

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• You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

  Alicia Witt

  Acting

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

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• Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

  Alicia Witt

  Play, Get Better, Age

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

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• All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

  Dolly Parton

  People, Grandpa, Musical

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• Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

  Jools Holland

  Would Be, Disaster, Hold Me

  "'A labour of love'" by Jools Holland, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

  Tommy Bolin

  Strings, Fingers, Contact

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• Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

  Bill Bruford

  Writing, Pieces, Approach

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• I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

  Mark Knopfler

  Song, Guitar, Practice

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• I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

  George Shearing

  Couple, Thinking, Giving

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• I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

  Brian McKnight

  Play, Guy, Mustache

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• My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.

  Johnny Griffin

  Mother, Father, Kids

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• They teach real young kids and when I was about five my Mom took me to enroll in this thing and they said I could do it. It was definitely my choice, but I would have never thought of it. There's pictures of me playing piano when I'm real, real little, that kind of stuff.

  Andrew W.K.

  Mom, Real, Kids

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

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• The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

  Andrew W.K.

  Lessons, Influential, Piano Lesson

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

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• Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head a lot of times. I won't say every morning, but I wake up in the morning sometimes with eight bars in my head and I just go to the piano.

  Horace Silver

  Morning, Eight, Bars

  All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. December 18, 2003.

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• I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd say reading, writing, arithmetic and rhythm. But that should be a prerequisite, because then the quality of music in the world at least in the United States, would be much better, if everyone knew something about the piano and about music, they would know this is not good. Right now, there is so much music out that's not good, but no one knows the public doesn't know.

  Gary Bartz

  Reading, Writing, School

  Interview with John Rogers, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 15, 2005.

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• I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

  Lara Fabian

  Queens, Inspiration, Journey

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• It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Voice, Guitar, Hands

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• I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

  Cyrus Chestnut

  Years, Baltimore, Grew Up

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• I've been scuffed up a little, but I just hope and pray that I keep my youthful looks for as long as possible. I grew up in a musical family -- my mom sings and my father plays the piano. They were both very active in the church.

  Cyrus Chestnut

  Mom, Father, Play

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• My mom tells this story that even when I was in the womb, my father played the piano and she sang. So, before I officially got here, I was already surrounded by music. I also like the way my father explains it. When I was about 3-years old, in order to keep me quiet, my father would put me in the bassinet and either put on some music or play the piano. When he started playing, I got quiet and eventually went to sleep. He said by the time I turned 3, I just climbed up on the piano and started playing it with the attitude of I'm gonna play dis here piano.

  Cyrus Chestnut

  Mom, Attitude, Father

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