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To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. — Cecil Taylor
Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano? — Cecil Taylor
When I was 14 I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved… — Unknown Author
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous… — Ansel Adams
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for… — Charlotte Bronte
Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course,… — Stan Getz
In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in… — Dr. John
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time.… — Burt Bacharach
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano — Fiona Apple
Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk
The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on… — Arthur Lynch
If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend. — Jessi Colter
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. — Kenneth R. Miller
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… — William Gaddis
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… — Jacques Barzun
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air. — Kenneth R. Miller
On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics. — Kenneth R. Miller
When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced… — Elizabeth Lesser
A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor… — Lucille Kallen
In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out… — Unknown Author
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.… — Unknown Author
My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me… — Irene Cara

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