#pianist

Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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

— Frank Langella

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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

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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

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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

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

— Victoria de los Angeles

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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

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