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 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.
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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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I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
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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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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.
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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.
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Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!
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The pedal is the soul of the piano.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . . " "What is?" "You know. Being liked." I started to cry. I couldn't help it.
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Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
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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.
