Piano Quotes - Page 8

• I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

  Carole King

  Moving, Guitar, Get Better

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• I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.

  John Legend

  School, Groups

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• My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Brother, Dad

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• I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

  Regina Spektor

  Knitting, Names, Guy

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• I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, Different, Needs

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• Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.

  Kaci Brown

  Guitar, Hands, Use

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 15, 2006.

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• The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

  Richard Clayderman

  Father, Black And White, Keys

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• I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.

  Richie Havens

  Country, Mother, Dad

  "Richie Havens Interview: Woodstock, Dylan and Greenwich Village". Interview With Rick Landers, guitarinternational.com.

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• Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.

  Tony MacAlpine

  Long, Different, Lasts

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• So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.

  Vienna Teng

  Climbing, House, Parent

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• I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

  Yoko Shimomura

  Thinking, Age

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• I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and I applied with barely any hope of getting accepted to any of the companies. However, I got accepted! Although my path was already set to become a piano instructor, I chose the path of videogames instead. My parents cried, my friends were worried and my teacher was stunned (we're talking about way back when game music wasn't as popular as it is these days).

  Yoko Shimomura

  Teacher, Talking, Games

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• The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Song, Mistake, Play

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• I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Thensomething happened. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I foundmyself playing a melody, one I'd never heard or played before, and words came intomy head - they just seemed to fall into place.

  Thomas A. Dorsey

  Fall, Keys, Hands

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• You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Two, Energy, Principles

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• You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Swim, Benches

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• The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

  Nils Frahm

  Careers, Trying, Watches

  "Cillian Murphy vs. Nils Frahm". Interview with Nils Frahm, www.undertheradarmag.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

  Howard Shore

  Thinking, Truthful, Instruments

  Source: collider.com

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• The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

  Howard Shore

  Pieces, Orchestra, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Player, Piano Music, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

  Allen Toussaint

  Forte, Performers, Session

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

  Danny Fox

  Simple, Stuff, Painting

  "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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• At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

  Bryan Ferry

  Home, Machines, Used

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

  Bryan Ferry

  Home, Play

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to every MySpace page, so what's the difference? It's just noise that you filter out.

  Tim Hecker

  Song, Differences, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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