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    If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

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    I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

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    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.

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    If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

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    If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

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    If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

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    If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

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    I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.

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    If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

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    I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

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    I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.

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    I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

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    I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.

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    I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

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    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.

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    I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

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    I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

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    I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

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    If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

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    I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

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    I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

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    I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

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    I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

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    I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

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    I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

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    I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque.

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    I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.

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    I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

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    I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

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    I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

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    I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.

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    I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

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    I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

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    I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full bladder. I can't stand hearing a poem that I can't see. I did a reading at Wayne State, and it ended with the comedy such occasions deserve. I'd seated myself on a piano bench, and discovered upon attempting to arise at the end that the varnish had softened and I was stuck fast. The hinge was to the front, under my knees, so that as I tried to get up, I merely opened the lid.

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    I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

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    I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.

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    I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

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    I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

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    I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

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    I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

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    I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

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    I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

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    In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.

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    I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

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    I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity.

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    I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

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    I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

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    In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.

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    I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.

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    In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.