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«The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.»
Author: Andre Segovia | Keywords: monster, piano, screams, The Piano
«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.»
Author: Jacques Barzun (Educator) | Keywords: bourgeois, devices, drawing, drawing room, entertainment, furniture, Grown up, instrument of torture, massive, par, par excellence, piano, The Piano, The Social
«No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.»
Author: Kenneth Miller | About: Music, Mystery | Keywords: acoustic, An electric, electric, expressive, instrument, match, piano, pianos, range, The Piano, The Range
«[The piano is] able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.»
Author: Kenneth Miller | Keywords: communicate, metal, metals, piano, pianos, subtlest, The Piano, universal, vibrate, vibrated, Vibrates, vibrating, wood
«The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuosi and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.»
Author: Kenneth Miller | About: Mathematics | Keywords: barrel, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, liquid, nerved, pasture, perfumed, piano, stomp, stomping, stomps, The Piano, virtuosi, virtuoso
«The piano has been drinking, not me.»
Author: Tom Waits (Singer, Song Writer) | Keywords: piano, The Piano
«When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.»
Author: Bob Hope (Actor, Comedian) | Keywords: personally, piano, pianos, play down, rubbed, rubbing, rub off, rub up, started, The Piano
«They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Doing Your Best | Keywords: across, afterwards, come across, criticism, dancing, method, notice, pianist, pianists, piano, pianos, printed, rational, saloon, saloons, saw, shoot, The Pianist, The Piano, took
«The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: annoying, machine, piano, relation, sister, The Piano, typewriting, typewritten
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