Piano Action

Famous quotes containing the words piano and/or action:

“There was an old, old house renewed with paint,
And in it a piano loudly playing.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“To play is nothing but the imitative substitution of a pleasurable, superfluous and voluntary action for a serious, necessary, imperative and difficult one. At the cradle of play as well as of artistic activity there stood leisure, tedium entailed by increased spiritual mobility, a horror vacui, the need of letting forms no longer imprisoned move freely, of filling empty time with sequences of notes, empty space with sequences of form.”
—Max J. Friedländer (1867–1958)