Frederic Chopin
Composer
"I tell my piano the things I used to tell you"
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Franz Liszt
Composer, Pianist
"My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay."
Walter Russell
Artist, Author, Philosopher
"Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you."
Frederic Chopin
Composer
"Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."
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"One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind."
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"I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories."
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"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
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"When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one."
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"A Composition on the Piano"
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"The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it."
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"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I."
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"There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano."
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"I enjoy playing the audience like a piano."
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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
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"Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?"
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"If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano."
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"Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit."
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"Grammar is a piano I play by ear."
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"Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice"
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"In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'"
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"You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened."
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"Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love."
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"Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament."
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"My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country."
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