Quotes of: Concert-pianist Keyword

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

Artur Schnabel

My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't understand the words to their songs, she found the music almost unbearably sad. After the concert, ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

Scuttle: You see the snarfblatt dates back to pre-hysterical times when humans would sit around and stare at each other all day. [long pause] Scuttle: got very boring. So they invented this snarfblatt to make fine music, allow me! [Attempts to blow t...

The Little Mermaid

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Henry Miller

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Kathleen Battle

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

Mose Allison

It's such a rush doing a concert and seeing people actually mouthing the lyrics.

Carnie Wilson

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Stephen Sondheim

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Holly Near

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

Vanilla Ice

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Gary Cole

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

Fred Frith

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.

George Ayittey

I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

Colin Greenwood

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

David Byrne

In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort of have this fusion/soul/R&B/folk music kind of thing. We've been keeping it low-key and opening for some friends.

Jake Epstein

These hands are steady enough, but they are large. Had he been a proper pianist - he's dabbled inexpertly - his ten-note span might be of use.

Saturday

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.

Rufus Wainwright

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

Ayelet Waldman

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

George Shearing