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.

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Artur Rodzinski

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Miriam Makeba

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

Mark Thielen

I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.

Pat Miller

It is extraordinary - the orchestra tells you so much about the stage and what's going on,

Christopher Young

Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores.

David Ogden Stiers

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

David Ogden Stiers

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Liza Frulla

All orchestras have problems, and I can see it all over Canada. We just bailed out the Winnipeg orchestra, three years ago,

Ozzie Guillen

We have to get him ready so he knows how to prepare.

Charlotte Bronte

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Brian Eno

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

Brian Eno

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brent Weeks

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

Billy Chamberlain

We know each other so well. We try to open it up, but every time I try to do something, he knows how to stop it.

David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.