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But most of the time, with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a...

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Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is wher...

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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intell...

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E. M. ForsterA Room with a View

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys wit...

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Play always as if in the presence of a master.

If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come int...

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When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.

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Robert SchumannAdvice to Young Musicians

the study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of...

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Robert SchumannThe Letters Of Robert Schumann

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean agai...

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I dreamt of you last night - as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.