#pianist

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

— John E. Walker

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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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I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

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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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Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

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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. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#child #chopin #dame #elizabeth #her

I'm not really a pianist. ↗

— Harold Budd

#pianist #really

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me! ↗

— Cy Coleman

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

— Frank Langella

#concert pianist #four #hot #i #pianist

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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