This awakened a sense of gratitude in my heart, which combined with the immediateness of our peril to fill my eyes with tears.
"New-Arabian-Nights"
Stevenson, Robert Louis
I think it is equally certain that the piano grants to its players a greater freedom of expression than any other instrument; greater-in certain respects-than even the orchestra, and very much greater than the organ, which, after all, lacks the intimate, personal element of "touch" and the immediateness of its variegated results.
"Piano Playing With Piano Questions Answered"
Josef Hofmann
It had all the complications of the human mechanism, all the liability of getting out of repair, and it could not be replaced with the ease and immediateness of the human being.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009