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• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  Oscar Peterson

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• Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it’s much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.

  George Shearing

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  Tags in Jazz, Harmony, Pianist

• 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

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• I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn’t my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

  Steve Lacy

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• My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

  George Bernard Worrell Jr.

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• The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

  Gavin DeGraw

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• My dad didn’t want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

  Gavin DeGraw

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• I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

  Gavin DeGraw

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• Pianists don’t argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

  Emanuel Ax

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• I think I’m a very poor piano player.

  Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr

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• I’m basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I’m good. I think I’m a very poor piano player.

  Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr

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• My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

  Etta James

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• I decided during my teens that I wasn’t going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

  Cy Coleman

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• To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

  Victoria De Los Angeles

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