I'm just an ordinary piano player.

The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the…

— Lesley Gore

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band,…

— Ray Brown

I'm just an ordinary man. I get tired.

— Rakii Retondo

Really, I don't feel I'm a great piano player, but other people think so.

— Fats Domino

The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but…

— Michael Sheen

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player…

— Elton John

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

— Gil Scott-Heron

I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I…

— Billy Joel

Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if it's an…

— Patrick Fabian

Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the…

— Kurt Elling

Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.

— Lemmy

Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing.

— Paul Gilbert

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

— Denny Laine

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's…

— Gary Burton

“I'm just an ordinary woman who has somehow managed to do some extraordinary things!”

— Fiona Roberts