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Tag Name "Piano" (697)

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Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.
Vladimir Horowitz
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Piano is like drudgery.
Warren Zevon
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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Jon Bon Jovi
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Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
Hugh Laurie
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Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.
Francesca Lia Block
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Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.
Alicia Witt
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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
Ambrose Bierce
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Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake? Nobody. I woke up on my own. Was there anyone with you?
Cassandra Clare
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I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.
Yael Naim
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Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.
Paul Fussell
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False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
Vladimir Horowitz
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Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Bill Gates
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The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.
Andrew W.K.
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I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.
Rebecca Wells
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The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
Yefim Bronfman
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Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
Paul McCartney
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A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
Bill Shankly
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In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.
Angel Olsen
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
Yoko Ono
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You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology
Paul McCreesh
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The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I think it actually has the same restrictions as using the piano or any other instrument in [a traditional] way.
Volker Bertelmann
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It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
Billy Joel
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Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ani DiFranco
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