Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist. — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy. — Stan Kenton Copy Share Image
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist. — John E. Walker Copy Share Image
Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. — Kirsten Nelson Copy Share Image
In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists. — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s. — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I… — Kirsten Nelson Copy Share Image
A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on… — Amanda Eliasch Copy Share Image
The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
I've been nominated four times, never won. And the whole world is going, 'Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's why I'm doing… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep… — Alexander Kotov 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
The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on… — Sandra Steingraber 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
“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
“Formerly, in my attempts to isolate this talent, I deducted, so to speak, from what I heard, the part itself, a part,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...as a pianist, I can’t say I was always a big fan of contemporary music. The challenge of late Beethoven, or Mozart,… — Leon Fleisher Copy Share Image
I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed.… — Charles McPherson Copy Share Image
Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. — Michael Levine Copy Share Image
To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one. — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
