#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 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 took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#classical #guitar #guitar lessons #holland #i

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano. ↗

— Kevin Kline

#away #cole #doing #drag #famous

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#bar #five #hired #i #later

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#desmond #far #i #i love #instrumentalists

Dear Hope, I NEVER thought Id see the day when two of your daily e-mails sandwiched a message from none other than PAUL PARLIPIANO. My crush to end all crushes! Gay man of my dreams! OOOH! ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#funny #gay #jessica-darling #paul-parlipiano #dreams

I want to be in the Guinness Book of World Record’s for something ridiculous like juggling poison-tipped porcupines, playing the piano blindfolded while tightrope walking in tights, or throwing a rubber ball in a circular rim adorned with a dangling white nylon net. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #guinness-book-of-world-records #piano #funny

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#i #i wish #incompetent #pianos #put