Quotes of: Concert-pianist Keyword

The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.

Will Chase

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

Holly Near

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

Zubin Mehta

I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.

Sarah Caldwell

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

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to t...

Stephen Sondheim

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

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

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

Barbara Kingsolver

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

David Amram

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.

Jerry Hunt

Itzak Heller: What do you think you're doing Szpilman? I saved your life. Now go! Get out! Itzak Heller: [Szpilman begins to run] Don't run!

The Pianist

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

Justin Long

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

Ron Barber

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.

Shalom Harlow

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

Kitty Carlisle

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Levon Helm

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

Shaun Cassidy

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

Mandy Patinkin

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

Norman Granz