#pia

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability. ↗

— Russell Mark

#being #olympian #test #ultimate #ultimate test

Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses. ↗

— Mark R. Levin

#age

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#bar #five #hired #i #later

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #polybotes #son-of-neptune #humor

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. ↗

— Jelly Roll Morton

#get #piano #up #you

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#before #born #could #died #good

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players. ↗

— Harry Nilsson

#i #nervous #piano #players #shooting

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#i #i can #instrument #make #only

Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#altogether #because #believe #different #far

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. ↗

— Trey Parker

#changing #course #down #idea #just