#pia

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

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#because #eight #helps #i #learn

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#i #might #piano #play #set

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. ↗

— Ben Folds

#billy joel #both #great #jackson #joe

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano. ↗

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

#clarinet #decided #drums #flute #guitar

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#beautiful #because #cello #college #different

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#career #classical #college #day #every

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#be a man #had #handling #i #job