Best Piano Lines
860 Piano quotes by 622 unique authors
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Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.
— Liza Minnelli
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"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing…
— Kenny Smith
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I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits…
— Tori Amos
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I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice…
— Jamie Foxx
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Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses,…
— John Coltrane
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I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but…
— Marvin Gaye
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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,…
— Marvin Hamlisch
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I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my…
— Judy Collins
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In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your…
— Unknown Author
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My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
— John Legend
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I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me…
— Lenny Breau
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Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans…
— Lenny Breau
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I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything…
— Avicii
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The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has…
— Carl David Anderson
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All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the…
— Frederic Chopin
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and…
— Eddie Van Halen
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having…
— Vanessa Carlton
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Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is
— Vanessa Carlton
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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…
— Vanessa Carlton
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano
— Vanessa Carlton
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it
— Vanessa Carlton
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's…
— Vanessa Carlton
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And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to…
— Chantal Kreviazuk
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Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my…
— Sophie Tucker
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