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Tag Name "Pianist" (121)

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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
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I actually think that many of the musicians who have something meaningful to say don't win competitions. An incredible pianist like Horowitz had so much to say, but he might not win anything in competition because of his wrong notes.
Charlie Albright
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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
Herbie Hancock
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My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.
Rafal Blechacz
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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 intentions or natural talent. First and foremost there must be a spirit of sacrifice.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
Nina Simone
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The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
Thelonious Monk
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Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.
Truman Capote
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When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, That's interesting.
Aaron Zigman
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The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
Yanni
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I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.
Michel Petrucciani
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[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.
Pauline Oliveros
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
Billy Joel
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I ... started out to become a jazz pianist in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
Nat King Cole
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I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!
Frankie Cosmos
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My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.
Michala Petri
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It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
Frederic Chopin
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What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
Alexander Scriabin
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Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.
Placido Domingo
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There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.
John Kander
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Oscar Wilde
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I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
Alan Hovhaness
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
Oscar Peterson
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