Piano Quotes
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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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 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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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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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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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
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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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If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there 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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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play 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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The pedal is the soul of the 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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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
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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 play piano and write better than I can sing.
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I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
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I often break strings, which on a piano is quite an achievement!
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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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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 started writing hits the day I sold my piano.
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I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.
