My mother always wanted to play an instrument. Her parents never gave her that. Then it got to a point where I’d been playing for 18 years, and to give it up would make me feel guilty. But my parents also knew that realistically, I wasn’t going to become a concert pianist.
My wife is an incredible pianist. I don’t think there’s anything my wife can’t do, in all actuality.
Four Tet is somebody I respect a lot. There are other artists I admire like jazz pianist and composer Marc Moulin.
In ‘The Pianist,’ Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.
I was drawn to it much to my father’s dismay. He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I had coarser tastes – like that old joke: What do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians? A drummer.
I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn’t call him a non-pianist, because he’s really a great pianist, but he doesn’t feature it that much – he uses his keyboards and his piano technique to support his great songs and so forth, but he can really blow.
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
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