When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy. — Stan Kenton Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old. — Daya Copy Share Image
I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style. — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
My wife is a classically trained pianist and I have always wanted to be a singer. But whenever I sing, people are… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of… — Cy Coleman Copy Share Image
Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer. — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
“I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion,… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists… Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
There used to be a club in new york called Bradley's - I've never been there, it closed in the 80's -… — Jose James Copy Share Image
It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be… — Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Copy Share Image
I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good… — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
“We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the… — Eric Partridge Copy Share Image
When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one. — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. — Michael Levine Copy Share Image
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