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“I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.”

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“I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, 'I'm going to New York to become a performer.' And I left.”

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Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.”

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Author:Bruce Forsyth

“That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.”

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Author:Morton Gould

“I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.”

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Author:Condola Rashad

“The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who had the most influence on my playing. I saw him through a window playing piano and I thought it was unbelievable somebody could move their fingers that fast. And this is how I got interested in piano.”

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Author:Ike Turner

“Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.”

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Author:Betsy Byars

“I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.”

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Author:Max Schneider

“Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.”

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Author:Andrew Hollander

“Because of Billy Joel, I've been playing piano since I was knee high. The house was always full of music, so of course he's influenced me, but I think I've also developed my own sound. He's also been really good about giving me advice, which I think has helped me really stay true to what I want to do musically.”

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Author:Alexa Ray Joel

“Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.”

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Author:Charlyne Yi

“When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.”

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Author:Joey Harrington

“I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.”

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Author:Tom Verlaine

“Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.”

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Author:Jack Kornfield

“I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.”

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Author:Brian McKnight

“They teach real young kids and when I was about five my Mom took me to enroll in this thing and they said I could do it. It was definitely my choice, but I would have never thought of it. There's pictures of me playing piano when I'm real, real little, that kind of stuff.”

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Author:Andrew W.K.

“I didn't start playing piano until I was 18.”

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Author:George Winston

“There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to every MySpace page, so what's the difference? It's just noise that you filter out.”

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Author:Tim Hecker

“Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way.”

“I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.”

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Author:Max Tundra

“My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.”

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Author:Rashida Jones

“I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago. I also like playing piano, and I love being with my family and friends.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.”

“There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.”

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Author:Reggie Watts

“I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.”

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Author:Mac DeMarco

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

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Author:Tom Lehrer

“I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.”

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Author:Alanis Morissette

“I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.”

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Author:Mike Shinoda

“The piano has been drinking, not me.”

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Author:Tom Waits

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

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Book:Advice to Young Musicians

Source: Advice to Young Musicians

“Play always as if in the presence of a master.”

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Book:Advice to Young Musicians

Source: Advice to Young Musicians

“The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.”

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Author:Al Capp

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

“I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“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

“PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.”

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Author:Burt Bacharach

“No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.”

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Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“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.”

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Author:William Gaddis

“The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.”

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Book:Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

Source: Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

“The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.”

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Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates”

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Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.”

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Author:Artur Schnabel

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.”

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Author:Joan Didion

“The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.”

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Author:Andres Segovia

“I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.”

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Author:Ronnie Milsap

“My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.”

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Author:Laz Alonso

“When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.”

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Author:Katie Cassidy

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