I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is…

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was…

— Kirsten Nelson

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 dream of…

— Angela Aki

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to…

— Ayelet Waldman

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.

— Ronald Kessler

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

— Frank Langella

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated…

— Stephen Sondheim

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Lulu Wang

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

— Oscar Levant

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

— Bernie Worrell

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work…

— Nina Simone

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my…

— Amy Tan

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

— Nina Simone

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

— Cy Coleman