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

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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
  • Piano

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Court
  • Composer
  • Procrastination

• 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.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • House
  • Past
  • Strong

• The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

  

  Arthur Honegger
  • Dead
  • Composer
  • Requirement

• It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Long
  • Piano
  • Consistency

• In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.

  

  Richard Rodgers
  • Around
  • Getting
  • Composer

• Bob Hope was not a television pioneer. He didn't learn his lines. If you don't learn your lines, I don't take you seriously. We never had a (cue) card.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Hope
  • Television
  • Pioneer

• Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• 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