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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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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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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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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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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A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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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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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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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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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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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 have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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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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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 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 didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
