Piano Quotes
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Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.
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I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".
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I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.
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There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
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My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.
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The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.
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I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
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I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.
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I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.
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'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!
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Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.
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I like the piano a lot better 'cause it seemed like I got a lot more instant music out of the piano than I did with the guitar.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.
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I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.
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I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.
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I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done - I don't think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.
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You bang that piano real nice.
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I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'
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A Composition on the Piano
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In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.
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Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
