I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. I don't have professional pretensions. I've learned so much. So many things I've been doing in the visual, two-dimensional painting world parallel many of the inner working of music - how intervals resolve into each other, harmonic rhythm, tonal things - there's a whole vocabulary that overlaps. Sometimes people see pianos in my works - that I never think.
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde. ' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.
I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.
Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.
I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.
I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.
It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.
England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.
Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.
I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.
The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.
I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
