Piano Quotes
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Slap some keys on her and we'll have 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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The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
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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 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 decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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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 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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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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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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I play piano and write better than I can sing.
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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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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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Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
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The pedal is the soul of 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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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
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I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.
