On the subject of Egypt, Ellen Cherry was so vague she…

“On the subject of Egypt, Ellen Cherry was so vague she thought Ramses II was a jazz piano player.”

— Tom Robbins

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

— Tom Robbins

“You gotta come home. Be with me. After what we been through! We—we signed into that motel as man and wife! You put—you put…

— Tom Robbins

“Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine.”

— Tom Robbins

“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was…

— Tom Robbins

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

— Denny Laine

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

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

[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

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 took a sip from my second martini, feeling as decadent as one of those jazz piano players who smoke a lot and drink…

— André Aciman

My hands look like my dad's and my mom's put together. She's a piano player, he was an artist, and I use the creative…

— Rose Namajunas

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