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“My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.”

“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 of free jazz.”

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Author:Jon Pareles

“Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.”

Love Heart My Heart Spring Romantic Green Winter Composer Pianist

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing us all, his very strong commitment & motivation to aim for high musical goals. Talent like his is rare.”

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Author:Steve Lacy

“Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.”

Trying Sometimes Sound Singers Pianist

Author:Placido Domingo

“It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.”

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Author:Ian Holloway

“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 I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."”

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Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.”

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Author:Billy Joel

“When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.”

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Author:Carla Bley

“Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.”

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Book:How to be a master climber in six easy lessons

Source: How to be a master climber in six easy lessons

“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 it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.”

Goal Practice Highest Overcoming Difficulty Simplicity Pianist

Author:Frederic Chopin

“It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.”

Pity Piano Tunes Pianist

Author:Rene Coty

“I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.”

Life Play God Freedom Boundaries Composer Pianist

Author:Alexander Scriabin

“Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice.”

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Author:Eric Butterworth

“In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'”

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Book:Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews

Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews

“In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.”

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Author:David Amram

“When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.”

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Author:George Shearing

“I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.”

People Knows Ass Paris Concerts Pianist

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on the Dean Martin Show and I'm very proud to call him a friend!”

Shows Pleasure Wonderful Proud Jazz Singers Performers Exquisite Dean Pianist

Author:Lainie Kazan

“For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.”

Wanted Pianist

Author:Zedd

“My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.”

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Author:Fiona Shaw

“At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.”

Thinking Age Happened Doctors Fingers Pianist

Author:Kurt Masur

“I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.”

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Author:David Hyde Pierce

“Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.”

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Author:Roberta Flack

“The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.”

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Author:Jeff Buckley

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