Mcpartland Piano Quotes & Sayings

I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. — John McCain

Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not display. — Jeanette Winterson

Let's go on a road trip and like it, not dread it! There are no barriers, there is no fear. — Wayne W. Dyer

The loss is transformative, in good ways and bad, a tangle of change that cannot be threaded into the usual narrative spools ... It's not an emergence from the cocoon, but a tree growing around an obstruction. — Meghan O'Rourke

In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. — Robert Bringhurst

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano. — Marian McPartland

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous. — Marian McPartland

Lately ... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you. — June Jordan

My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, What are you gonna do about it? — David Byrne

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. — George Chapman