#pia

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me! ↗

— Cy Coleman

#concert #concert pianist #decided #during #going

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#forced #i #lessons #piano #piano lessons

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write. ↗

— Jessi Colter

#i #i do #i write #part #piano

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chops #everything #faster #get #going

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#bigger #everything #having #hobby #i

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#basics #great #oh #oh yeah #piano

He stared at her neck. Realization pulsed. He was looking at the bite he had given her. A hard length was growing against her hip. “So, is that your long, scaly, reptilian tail, or are you just happy to see me?” No, she did not just say that. Did she? ↗

— Thea Harrison

#funny #pia #funny

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#i #orchestral #parts #piano #reduction

So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#dystopia #prophesy #science-fiction #beauty

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons. ↗

— Hope Emerson

#amuse #around #bit #blues #had