piano Quotes and Quotations
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piano Quotes and Quotations
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano. Fiona Apple | top
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I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano. Carla Bley | top
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I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else. Arthur Boyd | top
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave. Vanessa Carlton | top
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And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band. Caroline Corr | top
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My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it. Dick Dale | top
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I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel. Gavin DeGraw | top
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll. Gavin DeGraw | top
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With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible. Luc Ferrari | top
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FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano. Maurice Gibb | top
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I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home. Arthur Godfrey | top
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I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it. Lesley Gore | top
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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. Morton Gould | top
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I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons. Marvin Hamlisch | top
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I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired. Sean Lennon | top
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Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter. Charles Phillips | top
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My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around. Louis Prima | top
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If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music. Lee Ritenour | top
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. Igor Stravinsky | top
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My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. Billy Strayhorn | top
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My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. Harry S. Truman | top
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Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that. Charlie Watts | top
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Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do. Paul Westerberg | top
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When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.' Mary Lou Williams | top
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I don't like piano solos. Warren Zevon | top