George Antheil: Piano

George Antheil was American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor. Explore interesting quotes on piano.

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“Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it that no young predatory females get very far.”

George Antheil

Girl , Travel , Time

“You are twenty-two years old, trained down to the last pound like a boxer. You do not over-eat, smoke or drink and you work six to eight hours a day at a piano with a special keyboard in which the keys are so hard to press down that when you come to your concert grand at night you seem, literally, to be riding a fleecy cloud, so easy is its keyboard action. Before each concert, of course, you eat nothing at all.”

George Antheil

Training , Drink , Night

“You crawl over the onrushing piano passages in slow motion. Your fingers are in ten little steel strait-jackets….”

George Antheil