Piano Quotes
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My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.
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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.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.
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You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
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I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.
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I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.
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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.
