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
• Composer
• Fundamentals
• 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
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Composer
  • Minimalist

• The composer makes plans, music laughs.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Plans
  • Composer
  • Laughs

• Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Women
  • Why
  • Book

• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • True
  • Single

• mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

  

  William P. Young
  • Purpose
  • Mistake
  • Papa

• 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
  • Composer
  • Fundamentals