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#pianist

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My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.


Bernie Worrell


#concert pianist #me #mother #pianist #wanted

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.


Kerry Washington


#also #changing #close #constantly #even

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

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


#came #college #college degree #county #degree

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


#guess #i #just #pianist #rather

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!


Dave Brubeck


#debussy #did #duke #duke ellington #ellington

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

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.


Emanuel Ax


#arguing #because #generally #getting #hard

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






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