#pianist

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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

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

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'


Joseph Murray


#each #genetics #geographic #geology #i

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

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.


Amy Tan


#both #care #concert #concert pianist #day

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

I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so I will refrain.


Julie Halpern


#flautist #flute #geek #humor #music