#piano

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance. ↗

— Heinrich Neuhaus

#piano #practicing #art

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#american #believe #complexion #dreams #founding

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. ↗

— William Gaddis

#birth #computer #entire #grandfather #i

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth. ↗

— Martin Gore

#comes #create #down #guitar #i

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#before #born #could #died #good

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

#insisted #kicked #lessons #many #mom

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#grand #hard #i #i think #keyboard

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#children #drums #evening #guitar #husband

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do. ↗

— George Shearing

#avoid #awful #being #couple #giving