"I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me."
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"All I need is a big surfboard and a piano."
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"Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?"
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"I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two."
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"I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing."
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"I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano."
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"I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music."
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"Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb."
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"The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died."
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"I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too."
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"Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out."
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"I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play."
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"I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins."
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"I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters."
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"When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere."
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"I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano."
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"I really like your playing"
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"There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano."
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"When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving."
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"I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?"
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