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"It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave."
"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?"
"Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts."
"Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano."
"I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing."
"When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed."
"I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five."
"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!"
"Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge."
"With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard."
"She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody."
"I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!"
"Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything."
"God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than that. It's truly the way God created me to release my soul and my spirit, to really worship him. ... I'm made to create music."
"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."
"To master the piano is to master the universe."
"England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere."
"I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear."
"It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time."
"At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that."
