Piano Quotes - Page 9

• I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the meat of the story. I would pick songs based off a), whether I felt like I could do anything with them, and b) whether I felt like I could keep the story intact. And then you sit in with one of the piano players and one of the vocal coaches and kind of work out your arrangements that way.

  David Cook

  Song, Believe, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

  Jackson Guthy

  Writing, Eight, Years

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.

  Kina Grannis

  School, Guitar, Singing

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a certain skill set; then being in the studio, and being curled up in the fetal position under the piano, that requires another skill set.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Thinking, Skills, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three hundred kids at every assembly. And it feels really good. It's really fun.

  Jory John

  Baby, Fun, Believe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard. I think with the fact that there's the Internet and that people can share home-made recordings, I think a lot of the songs do get to be heard, even if it's not the best quality, or there's clinking glasses or it's just piano and voice, people can at least hear the song.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Home, Thinking

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• By the time I was six or seven-years-old, I had learned several techniques of how to use my voice and was able to choose the sound I wanted to distinguish myself, so I started writing songs on the piano.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Writing, Years

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Write great songs that sound amazing if sung and played on the piano or acoustic guitar. Always encourage sing-alongs! Be prolific! Say "Yes" to new collaborations because you never know where it could lead.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done - I don't think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.

  Tom Odell

  Thinking, Play, Would Be

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• I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

  Tom Odell

  Thinking, Naked, Used

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• Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

  Gail Zappa

  Library, Musician, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Parent, Church, Lessons

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, School, Competition

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Play, Enough, Wells

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of mess around on the piano, but I'm going to start learning how to play the guitar.

  Danielle Bradbery

  Guitar, Play, Two

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• I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there's never a moment where Django plays the piano.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Cutting, Player, Django

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

  Colin Hay

  Guitar, Play, Ideas

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• From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

  Ella Henderson

  Song, Age, Written

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• I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

  Ella Henderson

  Teaching, House, Age

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• There was always a piano around the house and I've got other brothers and sisters but I'm the youngest, and none of them ever wanted to play it. So I guess I was the only one that was gonna end up playing it, if it was one of us.

  Ella Henderson

  Brother, Play, House

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• A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

  Ella Henderson

  Home, School, Play

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• Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or really sad or really happy, I immediately sit down at a piano and I begin writing a song.

  Ella Henderson

  Song, Strong, Writing

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• I got called to write for Aerosmith, nothing ever came of it, but I ended up spending the day with Steven Tyler and going to his house and we sat down at the piano, just me and him, and he sang for me and played, then he asked me to sing for him, and then we sang harmony together. That was just a big moment where it was like 'oh my god, my life is crazy!' It was really cool.

  Bonnie McKee

  Crazy, Writing, House

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• I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about 'Young Lion'. It's pretty different from any song that we've had before because the vocals are kind of between two different very simple instrumental piano melodies and it's almost like something that we call a vignette, it's sort of like a miniature.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.

  Max Richter

  Normal, Happy Accidents, Sketching

  Source: thequietus.com

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