Pianists Quotes

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. — Artur Schnabel
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
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a… — Daniel Levitin
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe… — Oscar Peterson
There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists. — Vladimir Horowitz
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. — Anton Rubinstein
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players. — Emanuel Ax
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge… — Jon Pareles
Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a BÃ¶sendorfer. — Placido Domingo
I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and… — Andrew Wyeth
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi. — Frederic Chopin
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail… — Ayelet Waldman
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard… — Nina Simone
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in… — David Ogden Stiers
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. — Oscar Peterson
I dont think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, there is where the artistry lies!! — Artur Schnabel
Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be… — Leo Ornstein

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