Pianist Quotes · Page 2

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

— Frederic Chopin

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

— Zedd

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

— Michel Petrucciani

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

— Frederic Chopin

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

— Woody Allen

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

— Frederic Chopin

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

— Cory Michael Smith

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

— Skitch Henderson

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

— Christian McKay

A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen

— Bob Brookmeyer

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of…

— Cy Coleman

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

— Placido Domingo

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it…

— Adrien Brody

I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

— Alexander Scriabin

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

— Pauline Oliveros

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after…

— Franz Liszt

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.…

— Billy Joel

There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's -…

— Jose James

My mother always wanted to play an instrument. Her parents never gave her that. Then it got to a point where I'd…

— Lulu Wang

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a…

— Charles Munch

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day.…

— Robert Anton Wilson

My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical…

— Rafal Blechacz

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was…

— Grace Jones

“A talented pianist, he toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a professional musician. Unsure, he sought advice and was…

— Manjit Kumar

The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on…

— Sandra Steingraber

“My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was…

— C. JoyBell C

I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the…

— Bill Crow

What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...…

— Scott Joplin

My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago…

— Jason Graae

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;…

— Robert Greenberg

When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the…

— Eric Partridge

When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead…

— Christian McBride

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

— Oscar Wilde

I want to act in a film like 'The Pianist.'

— Rahul Dev

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

— Bernie Worrell

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

— Michael Levine

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

— Victoria de los Angeles

“I am in love with a pianist, without his piano what is he?”

— Jai Clare

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.

— Max Hastings

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

— John E. Walker