I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying…

“*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that…

— Nina Simone

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd…

— Christopher Plummer

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

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

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

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

— Kirsten Nelson

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