Piano Performance
Quotes & Thinkers in Piano Performance
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🇬🇧Elton John
Music
b. 1947
"Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs."
10 quotes
🇺🇸Little Richard
Music
1932–2020
"I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard."
11 quotes
🇫🇷Michel Legrand
Music
1932–2019
"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."
1 quotes
🇭🇺Franz Liszt
Music
Romantic music
1811–1886
"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."
3 quotes
🇺🇸Oscar Levant
Music
1906–1972
"An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall."
48 quotes
🇺🇸Chick Corea
Music
1941–2021
"An Interview with Chick Corea" by Bob Rosenbaum"
8 quotes
🇺🇸Jerome Kern
Literature
1885–1945
"Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again."
1 quotes
🇨🇦Glenn Gould
Music
1932–1982
"The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes."
7 quotes
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music
Classical period
1770–1827
"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
24 quotes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music
Classical period
1756–1791
"Lengthy immersion in the works of other composers can tire. The music of Mozart does not tire, and this is one of its miracles."
31 quotes
🇦🇹Alfred Brendel
Music
1931–2025
"You need three or five hands to play Ligeti."
6 quotes