#pianist

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

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

#bass #bass player #compliments #doing #drummer

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#concert pianist #me #mother #pianist #wanted

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

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 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

#concert #concert pianist #decided #during #going

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

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

#jazz #limit #many #personal #personal style

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 Hyde Pierce

#concert pianist #dead #dead end #death #end

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

— Victoria de los Angeles

#find #pianist #search #sometimes #very