Pianist Quotes · Page 4

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

— David Benioff

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

— Janina Gavankar

I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

— Frederic Chopin

Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely…

— Angela Aki

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

— Nina Simone

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing…

— Michala Petri

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an…

— Kerry Washington

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a…

— Anton Rubinstein

When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done -…

— Alexandra Daddario

Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's…

— Carlo Grante

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little…

— Vanessa Carlton

I've been nominated four times, never won. And the whole world is going, 'Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's why I'm doing…

— Ricky Gervais

I had to go to an audition for a rather large West End musical set on a Greek island. I didn't realise…

— Mel Giedroyc

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was…

— Oscar Wilde

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father.…

— Athol Fugard

It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for…

— Charles Hazlewood

When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand.…

— Robert Greenberg

Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.…

— Peter Watts

My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform…

— Jon Gordon

“Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I…

— Haruki Murakami

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated…

— Daniel Levitin

Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and…

— Michel Martin

Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

“I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so…

— Julie Halpern

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit…

— Steve Lacy

I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

— Frederic Chopin

I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz…

— Richard Clayderman

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing…

— Daniel Breaker

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the…

— John Kander

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were…

— Gad Elmaleh

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

— Yoko Ono

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

— Richard Clayderman

“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.”

— Thomas Bernhard

The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

— Pat Metheny

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

— Oscar Levant

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it…

— Alice Merton

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it…

— Roman Polanski

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a…

— Steven Wright