Pianist Quotes
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I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn`t good enough. I got into city college because I didn`t have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take ac...
Dustin Hoffman
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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 instrument that is constantly changing.
Kerry Washington
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[On working with Roman Polanski on The Pianist (2002)] "We were shooting a scene and he`s like: `Adrien, I need you to climb up the building. And I want you to go up to the roof and I want you to climb out the window. And I want you to hang and they`re go...
Adrien Brody
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[On giving up material possessions and shedding 30 pounds for The Pianist (2002)] "There`s no comparison to what Wladyslaw Szpilman went through and the suffering that people during the Holocaust, or nations afflicted with famine are going through, but it...
Adrien Brody
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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.
Nina Simone
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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.
Robert Moog
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To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
Victoria de los Angeles
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called `Monk`s Dream` almost every day from the time I was born.
Benny Green
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One day I heard a pianist play `Honeysuckle Rose,` ... and I was hooked. I said, `What is that?` He said, `jazz,` which was a word I had never heard, and I asked him to spell it for me. My life was changed after that.
Joe Zawinul
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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.
Nina Simone
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My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
Carly Simon
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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.
David Amram
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Ian Bostridge is an enormously talented artist, hailed as one of the foremost interpreters of the Schubert repertoire today. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to present Mr. Bostridge and celebrated pianist Julius Drake in this uniquely intimate per...
David Adams
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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.
Ray Manzarek
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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 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 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.
David Pierce
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I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn`t my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.
Steve Lacy
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I certainly never thought I would be a performer or a recording artist. I think of myself as more of a songwriter than a pianist. I`m really more of a composer who plays the piano.
Jim Brickman
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He made evident that a jazz pianist can translate to popular culture. He wrote the theme to the TV show `Taxi,` that`s him playing the piano at the beginning.
Steve Bailey
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Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine
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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.
Roberta Flack
