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.

Morton Gould

• Piano
• Fundamentals
• Composer
• Conducting

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• I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Strange
  • Kid
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• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Father
  • Piano

• I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Sometimes
  • Piano
  • Somebody

• I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Never
  • Piano

• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  

  Francine Pascal
  • People
  • Same
  • Piano

• I don't like piano solos.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Piano
  • Solos

• I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Writing
  • Composer
  • Satisfying

• I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Fun
  • Designer
  • Composer

• 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.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Write
  • Piano
  • Software

• 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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Study

• I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • You
  • Know
  • Piano

• I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Music
  • Player
  • Piano

• 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.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Simple
  • Dark
  • Existence

• The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Art
  • Power
  • Perfect

• Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • Music
  • Art
  • Words

• When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Kid
  • Piano
  • Practise

• Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Court
  • Composer
  • Procrastination

• The pedal is the soul of the piano.

  

  Anton Rubinstein
  • Soul
  • Piano
  • Pedal

• On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Star
  • Sports

• Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • Ability
  • Combination
  • Unbeatable

• I have a lot of different sides. Sometimes I am shy, sometimes I get angry and sometimes I’m confident. But I think my confident side comes through the most when I’m writing songs.

  

  Jeon So-yeon (G)I-dle
  • Writing
  • Sides
  • Confident

• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Picture
  • Biography
  • Elizabeth I

• I remember doing stand-up at an open mic a long time ago, and the MC was like, 'Who's next?' I said, 'Marietta Sirleaf,' and he was like, 'What?' And I was like, 'Ugh, okay, just Retta.' It stuck with me ever since.

  

  Retta
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Morton Gould
  • Piano
  • Fundamentals
  • Composer