“I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.” SchoolVoiceClassWifeTheoryLessonsMetsMy WifePianoCompositionPiano LessonMusic Theory Author:Rohinton Mistry
“The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.” IfsTheoryGoes OnUniversalInstrumentsPiano Author:Eddie Van Halen
“The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.” MeanPerfectRecordsOne ThingTheoryLessonsEarsGuitarPianoEric Author:Eddie Van Halen
“Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.” WritingMeanPlayUsePlayerStageTheoryGuitarPianoGuitar PlayerMusic TheoryInstrumentalists Author:Zooey Deschanel
“See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.” FatherStuffTheoryPiano Author:John Fahey
“I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.” EnoughWholeSeemsWantedSchoolFeltVoiceTheoryLessonsMusicianTrainingPercentWhole LifePianoDecentPiano LessonMusic Theory Author:Adria Petty
“One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!” MenMayChoicesObjectsTheoryKeysAdvantagePianoFancyConvinceAtomsShatteredOverlookedFrenzyClassificationCapricePiano KeysNotes From The Underground Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.” IfsKnowsTwoEnoughEnergyPrinciplesProduceTheoryPianoQuantumProbabilityParticlesQuantum TheoryCollide Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi