#piano

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#composing #however #i #lessons #piano

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#biggest #bum #guess #i #know

Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#come #down #end #here #hotel

It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred. ↗

— Heinrich Neuhaus

#piano #tone #art

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together. ↗

— John Stamos

#barry #barry white #been #calculating #cook

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot. ↗

— John Fahey

#anything #father #him #i #knew

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years. ↗

— Beck

#commercials #electric #hear #i #like

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#grating #i #interested #like #little

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#big #come #excited #having #her

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#because #complete #completely #dark #gets