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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.”

Way Feels Writing Mean I Can Certain Pianist Fluidity

Author:Truman Capote

“[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.”

Mother Interest Taught Music Is Grandmother My Grandmother Pianist

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.”

Facts Piano Pianist Conservatory

Author:Richard Clayderman

“I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.”

My Own Style Pops Pianist

Author:Richard Clayderman

“Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists.... Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no doubt that Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin were also fantastic piano players - though there is no way to listen to them when they were performing.”

Way Years Today Doubt Player Years Ago Fantastic Piano Performing No Doubt Admiration Favourite Arthur Pianist

Author:Richard Clayderman

“I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.”

Fields Jazz Admiration Chicks Pianist

Author:Richard Clayderman

“Years ago, while being in an airport in Australia, I happened to meet with David Helfgott. I knew that he was a bit fond of me and I was personally a fan of him. We were so happy to meet and hug and we had a very warm conversation together. Since that time.... about 20 years ago, I have not meet him again. I think that he is a very good pianist !”

Thinking Years Together Bits Happened Fans Conversation Years Ago Very Good Warm Australia Hug Airports Pianist

Author:Richard Clayderman

“There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's - but I used to study with Junior Mance, and he would tell me about Bradley's. It was a very important place for a generation of jazz musicians in New York. It was really all about pianists there.”

Important Used Study Generations New York Musician Jazz Clubs Used To Be Juniors Jazz Music Pianist Jazz Musician

Author:Jose James

“Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely dream of mine.”

Play Dream Mines Singers Halls Songwriters Singer Songwriters Pianist Legendary Carnegie Carnegie Hall

Author:Angela Aki

“I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform the [Alexander] Glazunov Concerto in senior year with our school orchestra and the Jewish Grossman orchestra. I won a scholarship from the Goldman band to perform the [Paul] Creston Concerto. Which I never played with them, but they still gave me the money.”

Years Stills School Band Cameras Brilliant Senior Orchestra Scholarship Pianist Senior Year

Author:Jon Gordon

“I think I was drawn to the harpsichord because of the similarity of touch between the harpsichord and the tracker organ. When you press a key on the harpsichord, the pluck of the string gives a slight resistance similar to the feel of depressing a key on a tracker organ. Also, harpsichordists and organists use much less wrist and body motion than pianists, and we do not need the upper body muscles required by pianists.”

Thinking Giving Depressing Similarity Pianist

Author:Barbara Harbach

“As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds, and thick aura of darkness. As a pianist I was drawn to compositions with the titles of Nocturne and Notturno - from Maria Szymanowska's Nocturne in B-flat to John Field and Frederic Chopin's Nocturnes. The night offers a myriad array of emotions from solace to absolute horror. I tried to infuse some of these terrifying thoughts, as well as solace that only night can bring into Night Soundings.”

Night Emotion Darkness Horror Wander Composition Solace Pianist

Author:Barbara Harbach

“Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a long time to write eight bars of rap. I would battle any pianist, and yet I would forfeit happily before even getting into a rap battle with anyone.”

Writing Long Poor Battle Rap Rapper Enthusiastic Pianist

Author:Chilly Gonzales

“Ewan McGregor is a very genial and entertaining man, and Pierce Brosnan is possibly the nicest man in the world. Actually, it was quite a genial set The Ghost Writer, but the weather and the colors and the actual surroundings were oppressive. But it was a created atmosphere. What was so striking is that Roman Polanski had his crew from The Pianist, and we were shooting in Berlin, so there were German and Polish and French people, and I was just sort of enjoying being in this mix of people, all kind of rubbing along together. That felt good.”

People Men World Kind Together Enjoy Ghost All Kinds Atmosphere Pianist

Author:Olivia Williams

“I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.”

Wanted Pianist

Author:Steve Lacy

“Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.”

Wanted Three Four Week Hot Concerts Pianist

Author:Frank Langella

“I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.”

Wanted Saws Dog Decided Musical Video Performing Surgery Pianist Vets Veterinarian

Author:Amy Lee

“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”

Life Play Life Is Music Depends Piano Life Is Like Playing Music Pianist Piano Lesson Playing Piano Piano Music Piano Playing Piano Keys Player Piano Piano Teachers Keyboard Players

Author:Tom Lehrer

“I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.”

People Thinking Firsts Kind Poor Player Jazz Very Good Piano Cocktails Keyboards Pianist Keyboard Players

Author:Ray Manzarek

“Competitions are for horses, not artists.”

Inspirational Art Funny Artist Inspiring Humorous Horse Competition Composer Pianist Classical Composers

Author:Bela Bartok

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.”

Humans Doe Information Activity Machines Performances Down And Programming Machinery Involving Pianist Human Activity Virtuoso

Author:Robert Moog

“My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.”

Spirit Father Independent Very Good Bankers Pianist

Author:Yoko Ono

“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 stop, you lose something.”

Ifs Needs Loses Painting Pianist

Author:John Berger

“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”

Names Consciousness Talking Music Communication Communicate Composer Pianist Conductor Music Life Unknowing Sound And Music Life Without Music

Book:The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

“'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.”

Watches Pianist

Author:Vidal Sassoon

“My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.”

Mother Father Singers Pianist

Author:Carly Simon

“Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.”

World Made Wanted Teacher Understood Concerts Pianist Bach's Music

Author:Nina Simone

“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 my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.”

People Choices Black Known Music Study Heard Technique Classic Concerts Intuitive Pianist

Author:Nina Simone

“When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.”

Stories Hands Remember Young Mother Stage Grew Grew Up Fingers Jew Broke Germany Nazi Symphony Pianist

Author:Steven Spielberg

“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 you.”

Different Deeper Singers Orchestra Pianist Conductor Violinist

Author:David Ogden Stiers

“If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.”

Ifs Years Might Able Rooms Teacher Piano Concerts Locks Barrels Pianist Piano Teachers

Author:Alan Sugar

“My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.”

Care Jobs Parent Taken Doctors Concerts Spares Pianist Day Jobs Spare Time

Author:Amy Tan

“My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.”

Firsts War Wanted Mother Born Teaching College Degrees Married Educated County Pianist Indiana College Degree

Author:Twyla Tharp

“When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.”

Littles Born Land Raised Bars Teenager Piano Pianist Born And Raised Tuscany

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.”

People Done Memories Forgotten Composer Ephemeral Pianist Conductor Lingering Quickness

Author:John Towner Williams

“Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.”

“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.”

People Inspirational Two Happiness Relationship Advice Positive Thinking Laughter Distance Cute Closest Pianist Conductor

Author:Victor Borge

“This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.”

“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 by European music!”

Thinking Knows Names Jazz Opera Dukes Pianist Did You Know Armstrong Debussy

Author: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 listen to her play Chopin.”

Children Play Used Mother California Pianist Tobias Dames

Author:Dave Brubeck

“Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!”

Mean Real Hard Song Next Rooms Impossible Missing Noise Drunk Spots Data Piano Tone Tunes Strings Deaf Messy Noisy Pianist

Book:Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia

Source: Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia

“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.”

People Love Life Compassion Love You Positive Thinking Positivity Positive Attitude Love Life Inspirational Love Pianist Sticky Appreciate Life Back Love

Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“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.”

Knows Life Mind Mean Soul Philosophy Used Music Piano Composer Being Alone Pianist Feeling Lonely Loneliness And Solitude

Author:Frederic Chopin

“When you play, never mind who listens to you.”

Mind Play Music Experience Piano Playing Music Pianist Inspirational Music Piano Lesson Playing Piano Piano Music Piano Playing Player Piano Piano Teachers Keyboard Players

Book:Advice to Young Musicians

Source: Advice to Young Musicians

“Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.”

Source: Blindsight

“I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.”

Knows Wells Notes Pianist

Author:David Benioff

“Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.”

Source: Yanni in Words

“When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.”

Guy Next Forget Music Jazz Musical Pianist Elevators

Author:Stan Kenton

“I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.”

Believe Ideas I Believe Music Capable Instruments Jazz Musical I Believe In Piano Pianist Piano Music

Author:Oscar Peterson

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