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Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!


Dave Brubeck


#debussy #did #duke #duke ellington #ellington

I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.


Dave Brubeck


#beat #beginning #being #end #energy

The piano is kind of my second instrument.


Bill Bruford


#kind #piano #second

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.


Carter Burwell


#hated #i #kid #lessons #like

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.


Jane Campion


#because #being #bright #contemporary #creates

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.


Vanessa Carlton


#big #come #excited #having #her

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.


Vanessa Carlton


#because #complete #completely #dark #gets

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.


Vanessa Carlton


#actually #am #appears #completely #deal

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.


Vanessa Carlton


#driver #happens #i #i am #just

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!


George Clooney


#bought #chopsticks #dream #drinking #even






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