If there is a guy with good talent in piano but he dislike playing piano

[antichrist]

Hey, If there is  a guy with good talent in piano but he dislike playing piano
do you think he will be a great pianist?Is he wasteing time when he is playing the piano?Give your comments, thank you.

[rc]

My first thought is that there must be some sort of enjoyment out of music to acquire even just a little skill on the piano, and that if someone dislikes playing the piano the reason must be non-musical.  Like a mean teacher, or being forced to do it somehow when he'd rather be doing other things.

[moscheles001]

It seems like a pretty odd predicament. What has kept this person practicing? Martha Argerich has said that she plays the piano because she can't do anything else, but I don't think she means that seriously.

I would think that a pianist with great technique but no interest in playing isn't going to be an interesting pianist to listen to. He isn't going to give a lot of thought to communicating with the audience. No one should do something if he really dislikes it. He should find something else; maybe someday the piano will actually come to mean something to him and he'll return to it.

[Bob]

And it evens out in the long run.  If someone has natural ability but doesn't work on it, it won't matter so much in the long run.  People with apparently lesser ability who work hard and people with natural ability who work hard will pass them up at some point. 

If they don't like it, don't do it.  And they probably won't.  Maybe there's some other instrument or another occupation they can do that uses that same natural ability.

(Bob notes the return of Bernhard and the appearance of this antichrist.  Just coincidence? )

[m19834]

Well, in some respect I think that a like or dislike for playing will end up having little to do with whether or not s/he is an interesting performer.  It is a common thing for people to say "if you are having fun on stage, the audience will be having fun listening" and that is actually not necessarily true.  The same goes for in the reverse; if the performer is not having fun playing, the audience may still truly enjoy the performance.  This has to do with a lot of things but also, enjoyment in general is very subjective for everybody involved. 

Also, I would wonder why, specifically (as specific anyway as possible), the person doesn't like playing.

[antichrist]

ah,Agree with all your comments

[nyonyo]

I like playing piano but do not like listening to music, unless the performance is intriguing to me. Glen Gould has never failed to impress me. That guy is just amazing when come to playing Bach.