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  • Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

    Music   Hurt   Piano  
  • The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

    Music   Names   Piano  
    Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press
  • Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

    Music   Piano   Brandy  
  • Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

    Funny   Music   People  
  • The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

    Music   Mean   Air  
  • I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

    Music   Believe   Ideas  
  • It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

  • I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

    I. M. Pei, Gero von Boehm (2000). “Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key”, Prestel Pub
  • 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.

  • Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

    Funny   Music   Dance  
  • How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

    Funny   Music   Piano  
  • When you play, never mind who listens to you.

    Music   Play   Piano  
    Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10
  • No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

    Music   Piano   Acoustics  
  • When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.

    Source: puregrainaudio.com
  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation
  • I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

    Music   Witty   Humorous  
    Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)
  • My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

    Life   Music   Wisdom  
    "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".
  • I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

    Funny   Music   Country  
  • I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

    Song   Dad   Kids  
  • Music is the universal language of mankind.

    1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).
  • When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

    Music   Play   Names  
  • As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

    "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.
  • As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.

    Symphony   Piano   Young  
  • I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

    Music   Play   Piano  
  • I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • In opera, there is always too much singing.

    Funny   Music   Piano  
    "Debussy". Book by Paul Holmes, 1989.
  • Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

    Impressions of America (1906). The Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate, 20 Apr. 1883, describes an afterdinner speech made by Wilde in Paris about his experiences in the United States: "The brightest and best of the many stories he related was one to the effect that at a ball in Leadville he saw a notice over the piano which read: 'Please don't shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.' "
  • I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

    Funny   Music   Girl  
  • Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

    Funny   Music   Witty  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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