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To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts…

— Russell Sherman

“The physical world exists, but that’s only the paint and canvas; that’s only the instrument we use to make music; that’s only the stage…

— Dennis Vickers

“The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can really focus…

— Anonymous

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…

— Jacques Barzun

“When on the island I sometimes imagined an inverse world, in which concert halls would be turned over to the sounds of rain and…

— Michal Ajvaz

“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music, that the…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Anonymous

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.

— Aubrey Thomas de Vere

“Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from”

— John C. Wright

A Composition on the Piano

— Johann Sebastian Bach

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer