Cliburn Piano Quotes

#1. The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

A. D. Coleman

#2. Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.

DMX

#3. You were right, you know. Ours is a talent wasted on the useless. - Gavin, to Kiaran

Elizabeth May

#4. Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

Eddie Van Halen

#5. The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

Van Cliburn

#6. The larger part of the 50,000 English stocking knitters and their families did not fully emerge from the hunger and misery entailed by the introduction of the machine for the next forty years.

Henry Hazlitt

#7. Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

William Ellery Channing

#8. As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

John Jay Chapman

#9. Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

Confucius