Pianist Quotes

I'm not really a pianist.

— Harold Budd

Jazz is my adventure.

— Thelonious Monk

“A pianist is a painter of music”

— Goitsemang Mvula

My dream job is being a pianist

— Robert Pattinson

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

— Benjamin Britten

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

— Vidal Sassoon

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

— Rene Coty

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

— Michel Petrucciani

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

— Nina Simone

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

— Frederic Chopin

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

— Zedd

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

— Igor Markevitch

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music,…

— Allen Toussaint

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

— Carly Simon

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California…

— Dave Brubeck

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.

— Yanni

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

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than…

— Chris Murray

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the…

— Roberta Flack

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very…

— Charles Kimbrough

Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a…

— Chilly Gonzales

Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next…

— Tom Stoppard

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like…

— Ayn Rand

When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a…

— Robert Glasper

Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who…

— Pat Ament

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to…

— Glenn Gould

You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the…

— Massimo Vignelli

Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England…

— Bob Brookmeyer

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;…

— Robert Greenberg

When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the…

— Eric Partridge

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

“My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was…

— C. JoyBell C

What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...…

— Scott Joplin

I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the…

— Bill Crow

My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago…

— Jason Graae

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

I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.

— Richard Clayderman

I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.

— Daya

Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.

— Dino Kartsonakis

My dad was a fine pianist and he had a lot of great records and beautiful music.

— Allan Holdsworth