Pianist Quotes


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. - David Ogden Stiers


With our Masterworks we are featuring either youth or people who have a tie to this area. We open our Masterworks with a 12-year-old pianist who has been studying at Juilliard since he was 6. And he's the real deal. He's phenomenal. - CEO M. Wade Kelley


While in prison, we had an excellent pianist named Jimmy Bunn, who also recorded with Bird. Jimmy would play a small accordion, and he, Art and I would play all day, nothing but ballads. - Frank Morgan


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


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. - George Shearing


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


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 superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether. - Leo Ornstein


We did not target Israeli civilians. Whether a pianist or an athlete, any Israeli is a soldier. - Mohammed Daoud


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


To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one. - Victoria De Los Angeles


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