Memorable Piano Quotes

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"The piano ain't got no wrong notes."
Thelonious Monk
"The piano is a universal instrument. It can be played solo, in chamber groups, in orchestras, and as an accompanist."
Walter Gieseking
"The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth."
Andrés Segovia
"The piano is a crutch, that is obvious. But what a lovely crutch!"
Arthur Rubinstein
"I don't play accurately; anyone can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression."
Frederic Chopin
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!"
Artur Schnabel
"Sometimes I can only manage to sing my despair rather than speak about it."
Gustav Mahler
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"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water."
Ray Charles
"Sometimes I think I was Mozart's illegitimate son."
George Gershwin
"Avoid all kinds of madness, but especially the musical kind."
Ambrose Bierce
"Life is like a piano; the white keys represent happiness and the black show sadness. But as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also create music."
Unknown
"The piano is the easiest instrument to play; the hardest to master."
Unknown
"When you play, never mind who listens to you."
Robert Schumann
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."
Sergei Rachmaninoff
"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."
Aaron Copland
"There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience."
Yehudi Menuhin
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
Duke Ellington
"That's what's so cool about the piano: you can just be completely abstract."
Andrew Wyatt
"The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind."
Maria Cristina Mena
"I spend most of my time at the piano, which is just as well because I can't get far from it anyway."
Glenn Gould
"Anyone who's been onstage with me knows that I try to create a party atmosphere."
Chuck Berry
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"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go jogging."
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
"Piano playing is a sport - a brutal sport."
Vladimir Horowitz
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."
Benjamin Disraeli
"I wish I could write as mysterious as a Mozart symphony."
James Thurber

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