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192 Pianist Quotes
192 Pianist Quotes
Frédéric Chopin
Even
Winter
Shall
Green
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“The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.”
Frédéric Chopin
Earth
Suffocating
Swear
Cut
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“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”
Frédéric Chopin
Wish
Throw
Thought
Poison
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“Simplicity is the final achievement.”
Frédéric Chopin
Simplicity
Final
Achievement
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“Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!
Frédéric Chopin
Put
Soul
Play
Feel
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“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.”
Frédéric Chopin
Simplicity
Highest
Achievable
Overcome
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“As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.”
Frédéric Chopin
Long
Have
Health
Strength
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“There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.”
Frédéric Chopin
Certain
Time
Inspired
Filled
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Igor Stravinsky
After
End
Finish
Long
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky
Able
Better
Building
Church
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Igor Stravinsky
Am
Book
Drama
Film
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Igor Stravinsky
Also
Duck
Effort
Hear
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
Igor Stravinsky
About
Always
Aware
Composer
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky
Animals
Best
Children
Music
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky
Am
Animal
Animals
Anymore
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky
Constraint
Constraints
Execution
More
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky
Appreciation
General
Instead
Love
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
Appetite
Beginning
Brings
Eating
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
Igor Stravinsky
Always
Hear
Like
Music
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
Igor Stravinsky
Anonymity
Bach
Been
Born
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
Artists
Borrow
Great
Lesser
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
Create
Dynamic
Force
Love
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
Bar
Felt
Life
Music
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Igor Stravinsky
Alone
Being
Essence
Love
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Igor Stravinsky
Force
Love
More
Potent
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
Assumptions
Chiefly
Composer
Exposure
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinsky
Cannot
Forgiven
Only
Sins
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
Harp
Lives
Out
Percent
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor Stravinsky
Am
Bring
Cannot
Forth
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Igor Stravinsky
Any
Becoming
Ending
Endless
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Igor Stravinsky
Each
Exhaust
Genius
Human
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Igor Stravinsky
Burn
Cannot
Itself
Kindle
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
Artist
Gives
His
Imitators
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
Igor Stravinsky
Careers
Classic
Conductor
Conductors
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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
George Gershwin
True music
Repeat
Thought
Inspirations
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I like to think of music as an emotional science.
George Gershwin
I like
Music
Emotional science
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Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.
George Gershwin
Look
Piano
Black notes
Figure out
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Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.
George Gershwin
Jazz
Best things
Life
Friend
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It is always possible to create something original.
George Gershwin
Always possible
Create
Original
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Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.
George Gershwin
Music
Vibration
Unquestionably
Physical reaction
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George Gershwin
Frequently
Hear music
Noise
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Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
George Gershwin
Writing music
Inspiration
Hard work
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What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!
George Gershwin
Work
Somebody
Yourself
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Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.
George Gershwin
Entire annual
Songs
Inspiration
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When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.
George Gershwin
Normal mood
Music
My fingers
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The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.
George Gershwin
Boys
Small ideas
Dress
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George Gershwin
Composers
Ideas
Strange instruments
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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Ray Charles
Famous
Great
Never
Only
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
Ray Charles
About
Anything
Done
Fact
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Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Ray Charles
Becomes
Cheap
Love
Love Is
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