(77 quotes found)
“The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.”
Andre Segovia
“Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.”
Ethel Barrymore
“The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.”
Al Capp
“PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“It's not safe, but yeah, I can flip a piano over. You take it on this side where there's not really as much weight.”
Ben Folds
“Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.”
Daryl F. Zanuck
“I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.”
William Gaddis
“I was still taking piano lessons up until 18 months ago. If I had one thing I could add to my very full calendar, it would be that. That's one of my personal goals because it helps balance all parts of your life, and I really get a lot of enjoyment out of playing Mozart and Beethoven.”
Andrea Jung
“When I saw the toy piano on one of the pages, that was it!”
Fred Rogers
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