#pia

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right. ↗

— Jerry Hunt

#career #could #ever #had #i

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. ↗

— Norah Jones

#college #coordinate #could #ever #gig

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#dying #emotional #evoking #experience #fact

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#because #christmas #course #during #family

There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#helping #lot #olympian #other #people

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#clarinet #development #form #ideology #instruments

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#again #belief #century #commune #creating

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#awkwardness #barrier #book #discourses #disenfranchised

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#guitar #had #hear #i #instruments

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#came #college #college degree #county #degree