Piano Quotes
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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 actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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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'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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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
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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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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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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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The pedal is the soul of the piano.
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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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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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If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
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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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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
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I often break strings, which on a piano is quite an achievement!
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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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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 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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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.
