It’s hard to put the joy of making music on the piano into words, but this difficulty hasn’t stopped many great minds from trying. To celebrate the beauty of this grand instrument, we put together this collection of wise words and quotes about piano. Which one is your favorite?
1. “The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.” – Maria Cristina Mena
“钢琴键是黑白相间的，但它们在你的脑海里听起来像一百万种颜色。”——Maria Cristina Mena
2. “The piano ain’t got no wrong notes.” – Thelonious Monk
钢琴是没有错误的音符的
3. “Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.” – Francesca Lia Block
钢琴与人不同是它歌唱时的每个音符，都倾注了你所有的情感，他们知道如何潜入您的心窝以及当你释放自我时协调你的呐喊，心中有一个节奏在那里跳动
4. “When you play, never mind who listens to you.” – Robert Schumann
“你弹奏的时候，不用在意谁会去谁听你的。”——舒曼
5. “Everybody told me this ‘girl on the piano thing’ was never going to work.” – Tori Amos
每个人都告诉我弹奏钢琴的人是不必去工作的
6. “I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It’s made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there’s only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything.” – James Baldwin
我从来没有想到音乐家和他的乐器之间的关系是多么可怕。他必须用生命的气息填满这一切，这是他自己的。他必须让他做他想做的事。钢琴只是钢琴。它是用这么多木头和电线，小锤子，大锤子和象牙做的。虽然只有这么多你可以这样做，找到这一点的唯一办法是尝试，尝试，使它做一切。”-詹姆斯·鲍德温
7. “What has keys but can’t listen to the beauty it unlocks? A piano.
” – Jarod Kintz
什么东西有钥匙却听不见它开锁的美丽？一架钢琴。
8. “Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” – Tom Lehrer
生活就像一架钢琴。你得到什么取决于你如何玩它。”–Tom Lehrer
9. “Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” – Wassily Kandinsky
色彩是键盘，眼睛是和声，灵魂是琴弦。触摸一个键，导致灵魂的振动。”–Wassily Kandinsky
10. “Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.” – Frederic Chopin
“有时我只能呻吟，忍受痛苦，把我的绝望倒在钢琴上。”——Frederic Chopin
11. “One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.” – Paul McCartney
“我最激动的事之一就是坐在那里，拿着吉他或钢琴，却不知从何处着手创作一首歌.”-- Paul McCartney
12. “Without a piano I don’t know how to stand, don’t know what to do with my hands.” – Norah Jones
“没有钢琴我不知道如何站起来，不知道该怎么做我的手。”-诺拉琼斯
13. “I’m an interpreter of stories. When I perform it’s like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.” – Nat King Cole
“我是音乐翻译者。当我表演它就像坐在我的钢琴和讲童话故事.“- Nat King Cole
14. “Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn’t have anything to do with me, but it’s just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.” – Agnes Obel
“有时我觉得自己像一个旋律不跟我有什么关系，但只是有些事情，是我弹钢琴了，然后这个小家伙就出现了。”–艾格尼丝·欧贝尔
15. “You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you’ve looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.” – Robert Schumann
“你写作是为了不朽，或者因为钢琴碰巧开着，或者你看着一双美丽的眼睛.”--舒曼