Quotes of Pianist - somelinesforyou

“ The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides! ”

- Arthur Schnabel

“ Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ”

- Michael Levine

“ If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something. ”

- Woody Allen

“ If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. ”

- Max Hastings

“ The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides. ”

- Artur Schnabel

“ 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

“ Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ”

- Michael Levine

“ While in prison, we had an excellent pianist named Jimmy Bunn, who also recorded with Bird. Jimmy would play a small accordion, and he, Art and I would play all day, nothing but ballads. ”

- Frank Morgan

“ Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist. ”

- Igor Markevitch

“ 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
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