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Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.

Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would just sit there like this. And all of a sudden there'd be a pause from all the trumpets and everything and Monk would go 'plink!' like that. And everybody would go 'Yeah!

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So you're coming up with, like, these - you hear these songs that are quite bare-bones, and you dream up what's the band doing? What's the rhythm section doing? What's the guitars, strings, pianos - that sort of thing. It's almost like a little toolbox.

The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I think it actually has the same restrictions as using the piano or any other instrument in [a traditional] way.

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

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.