Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. — Kirsten Nelson Copy Share Image
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists. — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet,… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started… — Dolora Zajick Copy Share Image
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it.… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
The one who really captured me and became my absolute favorite was Nat King Cole. He was a genius at what he… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You'll never see a pianist run around his piano. People… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Whenever I record something, I always believe that it's worthy of inclusion in the pantheon, and I would certainly like pianists to… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation.… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
Years ago, while being in an airport in Australia, I happened to meet with David Helfgott. I knew that he was a… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music,… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be. — Yanni Copy Share Image
“I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the… — Roberta Flack Copy Share Image
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality. — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that. — John Williams Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams. — Vladimir Ashkenazy Copy Share Image
