#pianist

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#big #come #excited #having #her

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist. ↗

— John E. Walker

#father #mason #pianist #stone #talented

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

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#i #off #pianist #started #studio

I'm not really a pianist. ↗

— Harold Budd

#pianist #really

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

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. ↗

— Robert Moog

#allows #any #does #down #human

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 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 wanted me to be a concert pianist. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#concert pianist #me #mother #pianist #wanted