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
A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen — Bob Brookmeyer 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
Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer. — Placido Domingo 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
I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak. — Alexander Scriabin Copy Share Image
[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done -… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's… — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the… — David Amram Copy Share Image
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I had to go to an audition for a rather large West End musical set on a Greek island. I didn't realise… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father.… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist,… — Shook Copy Share Image
I think I was drawn to the harpsichord because of the similarity of touch between the harpsichord and the tracker organ. When… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor is a very genial and entertaining man, and Pierce Brosnan is possibly the nicest man in the world. Actually, it… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds,… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his… — Sergei Rachmaninoff 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
I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt… — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called 'Sketch Book'; his name is… — Brad Mehldau 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
“She looked down at his hands, privately in awe of their pianist grace, the unconscious way his fingers twitched when someone asked… — N.M. Lombardi 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
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
They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now. — Josh Silver Copy Share Image
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players. — Emanuel Ax Copy Share Image
“These hands are steady enough, but they are large. Had he been a proper pianist - he's dabbled inexpertly - his ten-note… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job, but my second dream job would be to be a concert pianist. — Robert Emms Copy Share Image
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
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