When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy. — Stan Kenton Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old. — Daya Copy Share Image
My dad was a fine pianist and he had a lot of great records and beautiful music. — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist. — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style. — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called 'Sketch Book'; his name is… — Brad Mehldau Copy Share Image
I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt… — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
“She looked down at his hands, privately in awe of their pianist grace, the unconscious way his fingers twitched when someone asked… — N.M. Lombardi Copy Share Image
At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
My wife is a classically trained pianist and I have always wanted to be a singer. But whenever I sing, people are… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion,… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be… — Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Copy Share Image
I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good… — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
I think I was called 'the pianist' because of the way I play. It's true that I don't score many goals, just… — Miralem Pjanic Copy Share Image
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists… Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
“We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“Formerly, in my attempts to isolate this talent, I deducted, so to speak, from what I heard, the part itself, a part,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...as a pianist, I can’t say I was always a big fan of contemporary music. The challenge of late Beethoven, or Mozart,… — Leon Fleisher Copy Share Image
I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed.… — Charles McPherson Copy Share Image
Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
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