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pianos

«Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.»
«Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.»
Author: Benny Hill (Comedian, Humorist) | Keywords: grand, pianos, upright
«No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.»
«[The piano is] able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.»
«A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.»
«When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.»
«I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.»
«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.»
«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.'»
«A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.»