Piano Quotes
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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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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.
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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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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
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The pedal is the soul of the piano.
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If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
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I often break strings, which on a piano is quite an achievement!
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I don't think what people realize is I've been through years and years and years of training - piano, dance, vocal lessons.
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I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
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I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
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Piano is like drudgery.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
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I play piano and write better than I can sing.
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I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
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Although my first instrument was actually the violin, I prefer the piano as my main instrument. I love harpsichord and church organ and, of course, I love all synthesizers, analog and digital, as well as all sorts of percussion instruments, in addition to my beloved Alpine Horn and trumpet. And there's nothing like a Hammond organ and a real Moog synthesizer, or even a real Oberheim. When I played the mellotron, I had special effects tapes of all my albums made and was "playing" them through live concerts or different recordings like "on cue" analog samplers. I liked that part of playing them too, because they provided some very original punctuations in the music.
