Morton Gould Quotes
That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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I don't like piano solos.
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
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I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
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I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
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I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
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The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.
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The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
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Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!
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House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.
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The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that.
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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.
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Remember the music is not in the piano.
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My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
