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  • There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

    Teacher   Years   Piano  
    Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. February 04, 2010.
  • The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across the knuckles, and so whenever you put a piece of music in front of me, there's a Pavlovian reaction where it starts off.

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

    Piano   Notes   Pianist  
    "Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original". p. 444. Book by Robin Kelley, 2009.
  • I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. I love music because it's really just - I tried to play piano as a kid. I was awful. It didn't help, and this is absolutely true, that my piano teacher had arthritis. And that's not a good way to learn.

    Teacher   Kids   Play  
    "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.
  • I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.

    Teacher   Piano   Hints  
    "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.
  • I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

    Teacher   Blessed   Piano  
    "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.
  • I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking piano lessons at age five, but I never did what my piano teacher told me to do. I would just do whatever I wanted.

    Teacher   Piano   People  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

    Teacher   Years   Piano  
  • When you play, never mind who listens to you.

    Music   Play   Piano  
    Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10
  • I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

    Teacher   Stars   Two  
    "TIFF FUTURES: ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘A Royal Affair’ Star Alicia Vikander is Getting Her Fair Share of Corset Training". www.indiewire.com. September 07, 2012.
  • When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

    Teacher   Piano   Firsts  
  • I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear.

    Teacher   Eight   Years  
  • Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

    Music   Wisdom   Art  
    Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
  • I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.

    Mom   Teacher   Dad  
  • Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

    Life   Music   Play  
  • Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

    Attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (May 28, 1810), as quoted in Bettina von Arnim "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child", 1835.
  • If music be the food of love, play on.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
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