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Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.Collection: Piano
The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.Collection: Piano
O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoorsCollection: Piano
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.Collection: Piano
If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.Collection: Piano
The piano is not firewood -- yet.Collection: Piano
Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.Collection: Piano
Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.Collection: Piano
One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.Collection: Piano
I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.Collection: Piano
I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.Collection: Piano
Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"Collection: Piano
Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.Collection: Piano
I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.Collection: Piano
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crapCollection: Piano
It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.Collection: Piano
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.Collection: Piano
I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but no television. And really, I very quickly realized that this was, you know, there was magic there, there was magic to be had, you could lose yourself in it, it was a refuge, it was joy, it was all of those things.Collection: Piano
Remember the music is not in the piano.Collection: Piano
I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.Collection: Piano
I tell my piano the things I used to tell youCollection: Piano
I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.Collection: Piano
Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.Collection: Piano
I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you knowCollection: Piano
Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.Collection: Piano
Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.Collection: Piano
I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.Collection: Piano
For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my piano with me like a bassist can take his instrument. So whenever I arrive I am a bit nervous to see what kind of piano is waiting for me.Collection: Piano
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.Collection: Piano
Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.Collection: Piano
God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than that. It's truly the way God created me to release my soul and my spirit, to really worship him. ... I'm made to create music.Collection: Piano
I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.Collection: Piano
Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!Collection: Piano
The pedal is the soul of the piano.Collection: Piano
I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.Collection: Piano
Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.Collection: Piano
The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.Collection: Piano
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.Collection: Piano
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.Collection: Piano
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.Collection: Piano
I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.Collection: Piano
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.Collection: Piano
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.Collection: Piano
The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you knowCollection: Piano
My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.Collection: Piano
I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.Collection: Piano
I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.Collection: Piano
Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.Collection: Piano
In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.Collection: Piano
I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.Collection: Piano