Achieve Quote by Dirk Benedict

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

— Mao Zedong

To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do.…

— Vladimir Horowitz

“In essence, art lies embedded in the conceptual leap between pieces, not in the pieces themselves. And simply put, there’s a greater conceptual jump…

— David Bayles

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it…

— Michael Snow

“We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the museum and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

— Barbara Mason

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

— Howard Shore

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…

— Caio Fonseca

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work…

— Leonard Slatkin

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill