I have a Yamaha YC-45D organ in my studio. It's actually Terry Riley's favorite keyboard, so if you find old clips of him on YouTube, he's usually playing one of these.
Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.
I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.
I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.
The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know
To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.
The pedal is the soul of the piano.
I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.
As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.
A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.
I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me.
When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.
A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.
The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.
The piano is the instrument I can play the most.
Piano is like drudgery.
O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors
One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.
