My mother is a pianist and vocalist. When I was 15, I was playing guitar in her Dell Graham Trio. — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a… — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided… — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now. — Josh Silver Copy Share Image
They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
“A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players. — Emanuel Ax Copy Share Image
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the… — David Amram Copy Share Image
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
Mum was a brilliant classical pianist. She was Canadian and studied music at McGill University. She took me to ballet when I… — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life.… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds,… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist,… — Shook Copy Share Image
I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
I think I was drawn to the harpsichord because of the similarity of touch between the harpsichord and the tracker organ. When… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor is a very genial and entertaining man, and Pierce Brosnan is possibly the nicest man in the world. Actually, it… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
“These hands are steady enough, but they are large. Had he been a proper pianist - he's dabbled inexpertly - his ten-note… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job, but my second dream job would be to be a concert pianist. — Robert Emms Copy Share Image
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it… — Gene Lees Copy Share Image
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music. — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a… — Chilly Gonzales Copy Share Image
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
