222 Quotes About Piano
- Author Thad Carhart
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I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.
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- Author Thad Carhart
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The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys.
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- Author Gwendolyn Heasley
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People aren't pianos. You don't hit a certain note and know what you're going to get.
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- Author Heinrich Neuhaus
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Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and perceived by two physically different organs, the eye and the ear. How often the playing of a great master makes us think of a picture with a deep background and varying planes; the figures in the foreground almost leap out of the frame whereas in the background the mountains and clouds are lost in a blue haze.
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- Author Chaim Potok
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Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool and silken wind from my grasp.
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- Author Marcel Proust
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It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskilful fingers upon a tuneless piano.
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- Author Sebastian Rotella
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That Raymond was something," Nestor said. "Very talented.""Perhaps not the best pianist." Bocha grimaced apologetically, as if compelled to put that evaluation on the record."He used to tell me he was basically faking it on the piano," Pescatore said. "He said he played just well enough to get into trouble.
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- Author Esi Edugyan
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Chip said it was his piano hands - one ain't never doing the same thing as the other.
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- Author Chris Lynch
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We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.
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