Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Piano Quotes

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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When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Home Quotes , Piano Quotes

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

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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.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Piano Quotes , Long Quotes

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

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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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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

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When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

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Tags : Aaron Zigman Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Piano Quotes