Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
Piano Quotes
Fan: I’d give my life to be able to play like that! Paderewski: I did.
Without the piano one cannot invent new harmonies. (scolding a music student, Ralph Vaughan Williams, for working in a hotel room with no piano.)
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments: its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Piano, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.
‘T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump.
