I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
Oscar Wilde
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Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.
Vladimir Horowitz
Listening to the CD and coming to the theater are very different experiences. I've always had the feeling that piano could be kind of a snooze if you just place one song after another. I'm the only thing to look at onstage, so it's up to me to make it as entertaining as possible.
Jim Brickman
When I read 'The Piano Lesson,' I realized it encompassed the entire African-American experience, ... August Wilson's legacy is as important as Martin Luther King's legacy, as important as Malcolm X's legacy and as important as Nat Turner.
Charles S. Dutton
We always needed a place to land the piano.
Lynn Forres
They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn't have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one!
George Duke
The piano concertos contain some of his beautiful writing.
Robert Walzel
The first time I ever appeared on a major album was when I played piano on 'Everything Is Everything' from 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,' ... I have been wanting to work with her again ever since.
John Legend
By all accounts we know there are no other international piano competitions in Missouri.
Gary Duncan
He was great fun and could play the piano like Les Dawson!
Tony Jackson
With clever PR and marketing it could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and potentially a nice film deal. If he gets piano lessons and becomes amazing then it could be millions.
Max Clifford
She was a very, very religious person. She played piano and organ at her church at one time.
Conrad Coleman
When I saw the toy piano on one of the pages, that was it!
Fred Rogers
What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision-making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands.
Richard Kramer
I couldn't recognize my daughter's piano.
Grace Leung
I could feel a fire going up my arm, across my chest and out the top of my head. The only way I can describe it -- it felt like someone dropped a piano on my head.
Donna Kulfan
When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.
Robert Walzel
I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.
Jerry Hunt
We're very happy to have Jae back. And he'll even be staying with the same family he stayed with during the piano competition. So, this will be a happy time for everybody.
Nikita Fitenko
It's got the context of a very good architect [Renzo Piano, who designed the expansion] and an excellent museum. You couldn't ask for more.
Claes Oldenburg
He was kind of irritated about the sound system. They had a microphone in the piano, and it was feeding back.
Gary Schultz
Some clients are people buying pianos for their kids. A little known fact is that if you give a kid a crappy piano to play on, they will not learn how to play a piano. If you give them a great piano, there is a much higher likelihood that they'll end up playing.
Josh Faust
See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
John Fahey
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James Whistler
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ani Difranco
Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
Jack Bruce
A piano is really essential for a playhouse and this is a good one.
Jim Chapman
She played the saxophone and was taking piano lessons too. She was a good musician.
Michelle Wood
I'm just glad that I'm healthy right now with my hand. I can play the piano again, so I'm alright.
Clark Haggans
Piano players are all wacky, and drummers just like to make noise. The bass player has to be responsible.
John Kolivas
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion
So between my mother playing two-part inventions by Bach on the piano and my dad singing Ivor Novello, I became what I am today.
Lesley Garrett
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
William Gaddis
I've probably played (in Utah) more than anywhere. There's always been an affinity for piano and melody in Utah. People kind of got to know me there, and I've come back so many times. It's always been a great place to perform.
Jim Brickman
He's got some talent on the guitar, some talent on the piano and some talent all over. He's a real young, very inspiring and motivated musician.
Nick Barth
[A.J. Croce (Jan. 13) is the son of the late singer-storyteller Jim Croce.] A.J. has far more rock in his music and works behind a piano, ... but you can hear the storyteller in him.
Jack Walker
At the end of the show he kicked over the piano bench and laughed. It was kind of a parody of himself years ago.
Gary Schultz
[That wasn't acceptable to the patient.] I only do two things in life, ... I write and I play the piano.
David Pogue
It's just a traditional jazz format. Piano, bass, vocals, and then jazz players just kind of come and sit in.
Neal Connors
What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.
Daniel Adair
There are more compositions for classical guitar than any other instrument, other than, maybe piano.
Clare Callahan
He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.
David Brinkley
Joss didn't even think he could play the piano, then he would sit down and lay waste to every song around him and it's like 'I'm not crying...'
James Marsters
I keep mine in the corner next to the piano. ... My wife keeps trying to find another place for it.
John Kolivas
For (Far Away Blues) I wrote a bunch of half songs on the piano and the guitar, and then I had kind of theme going because I had it in mind who I wanted to have on the CD. And that was my grandfather, so I had kind of a family theme going. It's different for everything I do.
Adam Carroll
At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes. I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.
James Weldon Johnson
I was still taking piano lessons up until 18 months ago. If I had one thing I could add to my very full calendar, it would be that. That's one of my personal goals because it helps balance all parts of your life, and I really get a lot of enjoyment out of playing Mozart and Beethoven.
Andrea Jung
It's different. When you perform with an orchestra it's different than performing with a piano soloist. They really have to be in sync with the conductor.
Marc Tourre
(The women living here) always have dreams and wishes ... so there's always a wish list of things that need to be done (at the house). One of the needs that kept arriving was about the piano.
Jen Buckingham
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
Andre Segovia
Music has been an important part of my life forever. I played piano since birth. I've been a church pianist for over 50 years, and played in piano bars from Boston to Bangkok.
Larry Martin
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
Debby Boone
He'd be playing that old piano at the town hall waiting for the meetings to start.
Shirley Sippel
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
Cecil Taylor
The guys kind of jokingly call me 'the Piano Man' in my band.
Mark Hanson
I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.
Harry Nilsson
That's why he wrote so many piano concertos.
David Ferris
He's like a pianist whose child learns how to play a piano. It's almost in the genes. He's been around it, he's seen it and he's seen his dad get ready for it. I do believe that if he didn't have any talent, the genes wouldn't matter, but he has talent.
Vince Dilorenzo
[Actress Holly Hunter's credits include an Oscar in 1993 for her role in] The Piano, ... The Prince of Egypt.
Jeff Goldblum
Other students studied piano or violin, but I switched from flutes to drums. Music is a bridge between cultures.
Theo Staub
Though I didn't really know him, I met him at concerts a few times. I even played for him once, his Piano Trio, when I was a student at the Moscow Conservatoire.
Vladimir Ashkenazy
The most exciting piano player I've heard since those first sessions with Bill Evans and Marian McPartland and Oscar Peterson.
The Bee Gees
We almost always have some music students in the house; it's used a great deal. It was really fun to get letters from all ages saying they really appreciate the piano.
Jen Buckingham
His invention is ubiquitous and has had as much if not more impact than the invention of the piano. He's probably one of the most important musical instrument makers in history.
David Borden
Miranda was in a sort of little Charleston dress, she was probably 14, and she sat on the piano and sang something. And she looked so beautiful and I thought: 'Wow!'
Barry Otto
We are honored to have one of this nation's greatest artists not only bestow his most cherished piano but also make history with this record-breaking marathon.
Duke Blackwood
I've always been careful because what is the difference between this and paying somebody $70 an hour to teach my kid how to play piano, 'cause I can't play piano?
Rick Wolff
He just loved being on the bandstand. He'd kick the piano bench over and drop to his knees and play ... he was a one-man blues party.
Bruce Iglauer
[? Dave Brubeck and Marian McPartland, two masters of the jazz piano, Friday.] It's always an event, when she's there, ... She's a wonderful pianist.
Dave Brubeck
Any and all donations are gratefully received. We really need a new piano.
Theresa Davis
The piano is for live entertainment on Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons - the idea being to create a kind of cocktail culture.
Mark Fraser
A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.
Ramon Gomez De La Serna
If we can come back, we will build a two-story house and the new piano will be on the second floor.
Grace Leung
The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.
Richard Fleeshman
He was a strange character, to say the least. He was a genius on the piano. Anything you would ask him to play, he could play it and play it well. He would play a classical piece, then play it backwards just as fluently -- without missing a beat.
Irma Thomas
I thought the choir was awesome with the brass, organ and piano. It made me very emotional ? Linda spread her wings, what more can be said or done?
John Sharpe
When I sit down at a piano, I feel what's going on in my life and what led up to it. Certain songs are born from that motivation.
Corey Hart
Needless to say, a few weeks later, the family bought a white baby grand piano and I began to formally take lessons.
Jordan Rudess
Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.
Norah Jones
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
Fiona Shaw
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
Ethel Barrymore
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.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
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.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
My aunt, or whoever it was, who brought me from the South, would have killed me, because she didn't like anything like that. The only thing she liked was a concert pianist. Which is marvelous; I wish I'd studied piano.
Eartha Kitt
The electric guitar is not my instrument. Really, the nylon strings is where I have my voice. It's like asking the piano player why he doesn't play the organ.
Earl Klugh
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