Famous Quotes & Sayings

Artur Schnabel

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Andres Segovia

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

Dave Brubeck

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Norah Jones

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

Jacques Barzun

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

Kenneth R. Miller

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

John Cale

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

Liza Frulla

All orchestras have problems, and I can see it all over Canada. We just bailed out the Winnipeg orchestra, three years ago,

James Levine

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

Artur Rodzinski

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Skitch Henderson

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

Miriam Makeba

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

Gerry Mulligan

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

Gerry Mulligan

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

Pat Miller

It is extraordinary - the orchestra tells you so much about the stage and what's going on,

Chris Carter

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Charles Mingus

Everything I do is Mingus.

Edgar Meyer

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

Bill Frisell

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

Ben Jaffe

They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

Dexter Gordon

Jazz to me is a living music.

David Sanborn

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.