Pianist Quotes

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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you… — John Berger
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany. — Andrea Bocelli
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced… — Dave Brubeck
My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to… — Dave Brubeck
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write… — Maya Angelou
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. — Artur Schnabel
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once… — Elizabeth Taylor
The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to… — Donald Bradman
When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play… — Eric Partridge
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same… — Billy Joel
It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good… — Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment. — Oscar Levant
It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so… — Dudley Moore
I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an… — Kerry Washington
There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called 'Sketch Book'; his name is Vardan Ovsepian — Brad Mehldau
I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music.… — Keith Emerson
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. — Franz Liszt
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere. — Frederic Chopin
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans… — Lenny Breau

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