#pianist

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

— Frank Langella

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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

#ambition #fervent #few #greatest #instructions

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

#basically #be the first #cocktail #first #good

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing. ↗

— Charles Munch

#burden #collective #conscience #every #his

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#find #pianist #search #sometimes #very

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

#competent #consider #extraordinary #i #i do

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. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#badly #bassist #brother #cello #double

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

#conductors #deeper #different #hear #itself

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

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

#almost #born #called #day #dream