Pianist Quotes · Page 2

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

— Skitch Henderson

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

— Cory Michael Smith

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

— Frederic Chopin

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

— Richard Clayderman

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

— Igor Markevitch

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

— Michel Petrucciani

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

— Zedd

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

— Frederic Chopin

The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

— Pat Metheny

“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.”

— Thomas Bernhard

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

— Richard Clayderman

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

— Yoko Ono

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

— Neil Sedaka

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

— Jeff Buckley

Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you…

— David Finckel

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it…

— Gene Lees

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my…

— Alan Hovhaness

I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I…

— Al Jarreau

It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano…

— Ian Holloway

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a…

— Dudley Moore

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the…

— George Shearing

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one…

— Joseph Murray

Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he…

— Marian McPartland

“Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I…

— Haruki Murakami

I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform…

— Jon Gordon

My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.…

— Peter Watts

When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand.…

— Robert Greenberg

I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who…

— Philip Glass

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the…

— Dustin Hoffman

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering…

— Heinrich Neuhaus

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

— Nina Simone

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

— Rene Coty

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

— Vidal Sassoon

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

— Benjamin Britten

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

— Bobby Robson

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

— Stan Kenton

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

— Frank Langella

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

— Allan Holdsworth