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Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
Benny Hill
Girl
Pianos
Like
Upright
Grand
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell
Funny
Government
Wish
Would
Pianos
Put
Tax
Incompetent
Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.
Alicia Witt
You
Age
Better
More
Tend
Pianos
Sound
Get
Them
Grow
Play
Well, I was very lucky. 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.
Clive Anderson
Music
Mother
Father
Mother And Father
Guitars
Brought
Pianos
Had
Drums
Well
Course
West
West Coast
Surrounded
Up
Very
Scotland
Southwest
Shop
Coast
Lucky
It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.
Diane Cilento
Own
Would
Would-Be
Both
Pianos
Had
Household
Because
Odd
Were
Very
Different
Them
Grandmothers
When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.
Jamie Cullum
School
Young
Air
Classical
Having
Piano
Pianos
Students
Around
Said
Always
Discourage
Go
Been
Very
Person
Often
Wanted
Which
Young Person
Play
Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.
Jason Moran
Saying
You
Back
Pianos
Like
Talk
Want
Then
There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.
Kevin Jonas
Nature
Our
Everywhere
Kind
Guitars
Pianos
Houses
Around
Blood
Just
I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
Lady Gaga
Worth
Year
More
Pianos
Had
Like
Rent
Than
Expensive
Grand
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
Lee Ritenour
Music
You
Jazz
Bass
Pianos
Dead
Very
Going
Depends
Subtle
Tunes
Acoustic
Standard
Play
Differently
I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.
Neko Case
Funny
Time
Thought
Free
Farm
Find
Only
Piano
Pianos
House
Period
Stick
Got
Still
Were
Get
Quite
Six
Short
Eight
Wanted
Short Period
Which
Them
Really
Barn
Many
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
Rafael Vinoly
Music
Time
World
Big
Classical
Classical Music
Only
Only Time
Piano
Pianos
Abstract
Indulgence
Disconnected
Literally
Regular
Connected
Play
Necessity
Playing
I went to see one of those pianos drowned in tsunami water near Fukushima and recorded it. Of course, it was totally out of tune, but I thought it was beautiful. I thought, 'Nature tuned it.'
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Beautiful
Nature
Water
Thought
Those
Out
See
Totally
Recorded
Pianos
Drowned
Course
Tune
Tuned
Near
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
Serge Schmemann
Life
Daily
Silence
You
Balance
Giving
Our
Telephone
Ring
Voice
Pianos
Over
Headphones
Courtesy
Bank
Your
Electronic
Even
Filled
Daily Life
Tones
Every time the mainstream media talk about progressive rock, they wheel out a clip of Rick Wakeman in a cape. For me, it's one of the most ambitious forms of music. The problem is that when it doesn't work, you end up with Emerson, Lake and Palmer doing symphonies with 60-piece orchestras and revolving pianos, which I think is ridiculous as well.
Steven Wilson
Work
Music
Time
Me
You
Problem
Every
Think
Every Time
Symphonies
Progressive
Out
About
Emerson
Pianos
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Most
Talk
Well
Rock
Doing
Clip
End
Up
Ambitious
Revolving
Wheel
Orchestra
Lake
Which
Forms
Cape
Rick
Ridiculous
Media
Palmer
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.
The Edge
Guitar
Broader
Range
Possibilities
Pretty
About
Something
Pianos
True
Like
Instruments
Sound
Sounds
Lot
Trumpet
Much
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Valerie Simpson
Teacher
Music
Me
Fool
Mistake
Song
Believe
Once
Both
Could
Pianos
Had
Knew
Nobody
Since
Like
She
Well
Make
Read
Learned
How
Child
Upright
Just
Taught
Notes
Then
Grandmothers
Grown-Up
Play
Ear
Played
Playing
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
Vanessa Carlton
Plus
Pianos
House
Were
Really
Avoid
Many
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