#piano

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

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#biggest #bum #guess #i #know

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Colin Hay

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss. ↗

— Robert Greenberg

#pianos #music

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#composing #effect #even #had #hand

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#concerto #developed #higher #i #much

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there. ↗

— Frederick Loewe

#before #decent #hope #i #just

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear. ↗

— John Mayall

#art #art school #ear #i #learned

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano. ↗

— Jayne Meadows

#i #music #piano #play #write

Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that. ↗

— Graham Nash

#audience #basic #because #comes #connected