Piano Quotes
Reflections from a lifetime at the keys.
These quotes trace a relationship with piano from the earliest memories of sitting at the keys to years of formal training passed down through well-known teachers. Not everyone recalls that First encounter fondly; some found the discipline more like drudgery than joy.
I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.
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Always Quotes
I studied with Felix Blumenfeld, who had studied piano with Anton Rubinstein and composition with Tchaikovsky. Felix, my professor, was the right hand of Anton Rubinstein. Blumenfeld knew his playing by heart, from every angle.
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
First Quotes
Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
Guitar Quotes
My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.
When I was a kid, I played the piano for six years, and all my family are musicians.
Just Quotes
When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
