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Piano Music Quotes

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Dave Brubeck
Piano Music, Orchestra, Jazz

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.

William Gaddis
Player, Piano Music, Piano Playing

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

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Oscar Wilde
Funny, Sarcasm, Piano Music
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.' "

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

Norah Jones
Piano Music, Hands, Know How
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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.

Allen Toussaint
Children, Mean, Piano Music
"'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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.

Agnes Obel
Beautiful, Nice, Piano Music
Source: puregrainaudio.com

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

John Cale
Piano Music, People, Solo

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.

Charlemagne Palestine
Player, Piano Music, Trying
Source: thequietus.com

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