Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Andre

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Agnes Obel

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Brian Wilson

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

Caio Fonseca

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Janina Gavankar

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

Jane Campion

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

John Sinclair

We're still hauling pianos around and relocating mailboxes.

Billy Taylor

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

Alan King

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

Charlotte Bronte

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

Charlotte Bronte

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Charles Dickens

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Charles Stross

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Charles Spurgeon

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Charles Spurgeon

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

Aaron Swartz

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

Charlie Gonzalez

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

Charlie Chaplin

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Charles de Lint

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

Charles Stanley

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Brian Chesky

Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

Brian Cox

As we get older, things seem less important.

Brian Cox

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

Brian Eno

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.