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  • In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?

    Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.72, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

  • Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

    Music   Hurt   Piano  
  • Perfection itself is imperfection.

  • The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.

    Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books
  • My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

    Kings   Dad   Father  
  • Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

    Trying   Sound   Singers  
  • Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Then I got interested in [saxophonist] John Coltrane.

    Music   Player   Piano  
  • One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born — or before you’re born — and it’s the last thing you hear.

    Music   Believe   Heart  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

  • Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!

    Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards
  • There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

  • I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

    Life   Music   Money  
    "Chopin". Book by Arthur Hedley,, 1947.
  • Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

    "John Berger: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.
  • Jazz is my adventure.

    Adventure   Jazz  
  • It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good intentions or natural talent. First and foremost there must be a spirit of sacrifice.

  • Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.

    Voice   Singing   Age  
    "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.
  • They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

    "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.
  • I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

  • Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.

    Eye   Alive   Helpful  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds, and thick aura of darkness. As a pianist I was drawn to compositions with the titles of Nocturne and Notturno - from Maria Szymanowska's Nocturne in B-flat to John Field and Frederic Chopin's Nocturnes. The night offers a myriad array of emotions from solace to absolute horror. I tried to infuse some of these terrifying thoughts, as well as solace that only night can bring into Night Soundings.

    Source: www.barbaraharbach.com
  • Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

  • I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

    "Paul Bley obituary" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2016.
  • Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one - that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process.

  • It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now.

    Thinking   Piano   People  
    "Jazz Professional", Interview, 1966.
  • 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.

    Country   Player   Bass  
  • Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.

    Fall   Rocks   Climbing  
    Pat Ament (1997). “How to be a master climber in six easy lessons”
  • By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

    School   Eight   Piano  
    Source: boscarol.com
  • Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

    Dream   Piano   Want  
  • When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication; and many; whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly, or at best inconsistently.

    Eric Partridge (2003). “You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies”, p.54, Routledge
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