Accompanists Quotes:

It's really fun to listen to other people and be an accompanist.

- Shawn Colvin

source: Source: www.washingtontimes.com

topic: Fun, People, Accompanists

Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

- Michael Broadbent

topic: Wine, Food And Wine, Accompanists

I looked at the job of piano accompanist. It's a selfless position and generally they are odd people, according to opera singers I talked to. Just like everybody else, they want more from their life, but now their job is to make others shine.

- Simon Helberg

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Jobs, Piano, People, Opera Singers, Accompanists

I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a 16-year-old, and I maintained that. So really good, but more impressive than classically trained. So I had to take a crash course in classical technique because I really wanted to get away with playing this character [in Florence Foster Jenkins] without people saying, "That's not really accurate."

- Simon Helberg

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Stars, Character, Years, Accompanists

I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great combination of the traditional vernacular with his own. Hearing it unfold and being in a position to participate was a great pleasure. Part of being an accompanist is that the stronger the soloist, the more I can do all that I know to do. So, Joe was as good as it gets.

- Pete La Roca

topic: Music, Profound, Good As It Gets, Polished, Vernacular

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

- Kirsten Nelson

topic: Growing Up, Couple, Growing, Accompanists

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

- Kim Basinger

source: Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

topic: Hurt, Dad, Thinking, Accompanists

The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.

- Z'EV

topic: Training, Majority, Drummer, Accompanists

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

- Kirsten Nelson

topic: Growing Up, Couple, Carnegie, Carnegie Hall, Accompanists