#pia

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#cause #century #changing #conform #evil

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#door #encouraging #front #get #him

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too. ↗

— Billy Preston

#earl #grant #had #him #home

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him. ↗

— Billy Preston

#corner #day #eased #first #first time

But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#broke #five #had #heart #kissing

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#bands #business #cameras #difficult #expression

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#dumb #first #i #piano #repressive

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#drawing #irish #irish people #lot #people

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#hated #homework #i #i always #just

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#barn #black #corner #eight #heard