Quotes About Piano

and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine musical effect being produced by the suddenness with which his head and body struck all the notes at the same time.

The truth is, genius and depression have always gone hand in hand. Which was why I spent so many afternoons, sitting at the piano, playing and playing, because my father said my music soothed his spirit and allowed him to rest in a way a truly great mind could never completely be at ease.

The truth is, genius and depression have always gone hand in hand. Which was why I spent so many afternoons, sitting at the piano, playing and playing, because my father said my music soothed his spirit and allowed him to rest in a way a truly great mind could never completely be at ease. I did my best to music the sadness out of him.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

Mert gondolj bele: a zongora. A billenty?k kezdÅ'dnek. A billenty?knek vége. Tudod jól, nyolcvannyolc van belÅ'lük, nem verhetnek át vele. Nem végtelenek. Te vagy végtelen, és ott, a billenty?k belsejében végtelen a zene, melyet megszólaltatsz. Azok nyolcvannyolcan vannak. Te végtelen vagy.

Llegaron del salón las notas de un piano cansado: disolvían el tiempo, hasta hacerlo casi irreconocible.

Certo... sai che musica però... con quelle mani, due, destre... se solo c'è un pianoforte...

The curious thing was that not a single experiment had ever suggested a link between listening to Mozart's music and increased infant intelligence. The closest an experiment had come to making this connection was a 1997 study, again by Rauscher, that demonstrated a relationship between piano lessons and improved spatial-reasoning skills among preschoolers.

I see that Emma's playing Erik Satie," he said to Mr. Woodhouse. "That's one of the Gymnopédies, isn't it?" "I believe it is," said Mr. Woodhouse. "I don't care for it very much. In fact, it gives me the creeps. It's the sort of thing a spider would play if spiders played the piano.

Mothers need to be ambitious for their children otherwise. . .well, nobody would ever learn the piano.

The more I practice piano, the more pleasure I get from the sound, and so the more I play the piano, which gives me more practice.

Black keys of the piano give good sounds and the white keys give good sounds, but the combination of the two gives the best melody.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Als je Bach speelt, zei meneer De Leon, dan ruim je op van binnen, het wordt schoon in je hoofd. Elke dag moet je Bach spelen, je leven lang.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.

I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.