#piano

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too. ↗

— Billy Preston

#earl #grant #had #him #home

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him. ↗

— Billy Preston

#corner #day #eased #first #first time

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#bands #business #cameras #difficult #expression

I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#complete #consider #enjoy #good #i

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

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

The pianokeys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind ↗

— Maria Cristina Mena

#interpretation #music #philosophy #piano #racism

When you play, never mind who listens to you. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#performing #piano #music

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#music #piano #music

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