Quotes and Sayings About Piano
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
-- Abbie Cornish -
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
-- Abel KorzeniowskiSource : "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.
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Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
-- Adam Johnson -
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
-- Agnes ObelSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
-- Agnes ObelSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
-- Aimee Mann -
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
-- Al Capp -
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I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.
-- Alain DucasseSource : " Amid gloss and glitter, Ducasse and his students cook up tasty revelations" by Randall H. Harber, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2000.
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What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!
-- Alan Carr -
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
-- Alan HovhanessSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.
-- Alan Sugar -
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I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
-- Alber Elbaz -
We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
-- Aleksandar HemonSource : Aleksandar Hemon (2010). “Love and Obstacles”, p.66, Pan Macmillan
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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
-- Alice ColtraneSource : "Alice Coltrane, Wife of John, Left Her Own Mark". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 16, 2007.
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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
-- Alicia Keys -
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I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.
-- Alicia WittSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
-- Alma Gluck -
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?
-- Amy Tan -
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God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than that. It's truly the way God created me to release my soul and my spirit, to really worship him. ... I'm made to create music.
-- Amy Williams -
Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
-- Andrea Gibson -
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
-- Andres Segovia -
I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing.
-- Andrew HillSource : "A Fireside Chat With Andrew Hill". Interview with Fred Jung, jazzweekly.com.
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I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.
-- Andrew W.K.