A Quote by Van Cliburn

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

Van Cliburn

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Art Beauty Drama Expressing Medium Perfect Performer Piano Poetry Power Steinway Steinway Piano

Quote Author

Van Cliburn
American - Musician
Born: July 12, 1934

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

Jerry Hall

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

Randy Newman

I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.

John Paulson

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

Alfred Brendel

The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing.

Robert Pinsky

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

Kwame Dawes

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

Krystian Zimerman

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

Malcolm Gladwell

My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.

Dawud Wharnsby Ali

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

Stephane Mallarme

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

Yefim Bronfman

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.