Best music & pianist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.”

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Author:Glenn Gould

“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”

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Author:Tom Lehrer

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”

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Book:The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

“When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”

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Author:Frederic Chopin

“When you play, never mind who listens to you.”

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Book:Advice to Young Musicians

Source: Advice to Young Musicians

“Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.”

Source: Yanni in Words

“When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.”

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Author:Stan Kenton

“I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.”

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Author:Oscar Peterson

“I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.”

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Author:Michel Petrucciani

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.”

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Author:Artur Schnabel

“Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.”

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Author:Jelly Roll Morton

“I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.”

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Author:Nat King Cole

“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.”

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Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born — or before you’re born — and it’s the last thing you hear.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

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