Steinway Grand Quotes & Sayings

Just because they're family doesn't mean they won't hurt you. It means they know how to cut deep. — Tessa Dare

There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings. — Vladimir Nabokov

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world. — Maurizio Pollini

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony. — Theodore E. Steinway

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine. — Tove Jansson

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly ... Eeyore becomes your best friend. — Mary E. DeMuth

He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine. — Horace

In essence, art lies embedded in the conceptual leap between pieces, not in the pieces themselves. And simply put, there's a greater conceptual jump from one work of art to the next than from one work of craft to the next. The net result is that art is less polished - but more innovative - than craft. The differences between five Steinway grand pianos - demonstrably works of consummate craftsmanship - are small compared to the differences between the five Beethoven Piano concerti you might perform on those instruments. A — David Bayles

It might've been my fichu.
-Patricia to Lucy about her engagement to vicar Penweeble. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. — Julianne Moore

To meditate means to realize inwardly the imperturbability of the Essence of Mind.
The reason why we are perturbed is because we allow ourselves to be carried away by the circumstances we are in. Those who are able to keep their mind unperturbed, irrespective of circumstances, have attained Inner Peace. — Huineng

Bartleby is never happy, but he never can be, you know. Life in general offends him. Happiness is something that happens to other people, because life happens to Bartleby. It happens to him frequently and unwarrantedly, and every time he is forced to suffer it, he is always disappointed. — Michelle Franklin

In the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the fall that bear her name. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't generally exercise that much. I exercised a great deal in my life - at times. In periods. — John Gemberling