Piano Quotes
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Piano is like drudgery.
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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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Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.
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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 have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.
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I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
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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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Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of course he's influenced me, but I think I've also developed my own sound. He's also been really good about giving me advice, which I think has helped me really stay true to what I want to do musically.
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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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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 got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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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 play piano and write better than I can sing.
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If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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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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Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
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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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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand 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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I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.
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The pedal is the soul of the piano.
