#pianist

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!! ↗

— Artur Schnabel

#artistry #between #differently #handle #i

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#concerts #entertainers #entertainment #funny #gifted-people

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

#book #boundaries #canvas #color #crossed

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right. ↗

— Jerry Hunt

#career #could #ever #had #i

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#barn #black #corner #eight #heard

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#classical #country #country music #drums #exciting

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#i #off #pianist #started #studio

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

#concert #concert pianist #did #earn #fairly

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

#arguing #because #generally #getting #hard

I'm not really a pianist. ↗

— Harold Budd

#pianist #really