Piano Servicing for Eastern CT and Western RI

"I'm told that Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds." -- Mark Twain

"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings." -- Jelly Roll Morton

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." -- Elvis Presley

"When a piece gets difficult, make faces." -- Arthur Schnabel (to Vladimir Horowitz)

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff." -- Frank Zappa

"There is two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind." -- Louis Armstrong

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"The piano has been drinking, not me." -- Tom Waits

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'." -- Bob Newhart

"I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us." -- Martin Luther

"I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play." -- Artur Schnabel, Australian pianist, asked the secret of piano playing.

"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music." -- Gioacchini Antonio Rossini

"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes." -- Bill Cosby

"Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled." -- George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and music critic.

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." -- Johann Sebastian Bach

The incomparable, Victor Borge...

"If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward... The rest goes to the government!"

"I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it all necessary."

"Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos."

"Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals."

"Ah Mozart! He was happily married -- but his wife wasn't."

"When asked the difference between a violin and a viola, Victor replied, "a viola burns longer."

(Not a quote, but a classic Borge story...)
Borge came to America to escape the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II. Starting to re-build his career, he was excited to get a booking at a large club in Florida, for which he was to be paid one dollar for each member of the audience. Three hundred guests saw his show, which was a tremendous success. When it came time to be paid, Borge pointed out to the management that the club's 40 waiters had also greatly enjoyed his performance. He got $340.

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