I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.
And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Piano is like drudgery.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'