It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.
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My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
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HOW MIGHT YOUR LIFE BE DIFFERENT? (To Women)
How might your life be different?
If there had been a special place for you
A place to be with your mother
Sisters, aunts and grandmothers
Great and great, great grandmothers
A place of women
To go
To be
A woman
(To the goddess in all women)
ROTMS
poem by Ray Lucero
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
quote by Edith Sitwell
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
quote by Benny Hill
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I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
quote by Arthur Boyd
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Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.
quote by Alicia Witt
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For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
quote by Tori Amos
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
When the grandmothers speak, the earth will be healed.
When the grandmothers of today hear the word ""Chippendales,"" they don't necessary think of chairs.
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
quote by Sally Rand
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The Domestic Stones (fragment)
(Translated from the French by David Gascoyne)
The feet of morning the feet of noon and the feet of evening
walk ceaselessly round pickled buttocks
on the other hand the feet of midnight remain motionless
in their echo-woven baskets
consequently the lion is a diamond
on the sofas made of bread
are seated the dressed and the undressed
the undressed hold leaden swallows between their toes
the dressed hold leaden nests between their fingers
at all hours the undressed get dressed again
and the dressed get undressed
and exchange the leaden swallows for the leaden nests
consequently the tail is an umbrella
a mouth opens within another mouth
and within this mouth another mouth
and within this mouth another mouth
and so on without end
it is a sad perspective
which adds an I-don't-know-what
to another I-don't-know-what
consequently the grasshopper is a column
the pianos with heads and tails
place pianos with heads and tails
on their heads and their tails
consequently the tongue is a chair
Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.
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There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
quote by George Thorogood
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Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
quote by Charlie Watts
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
quote by Alice Walker
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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
quote by Kathleen Turner
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