I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz… — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the… — John Kander Copy Share Image
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were… — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality. — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You'll never see a pianist run around his piano. People… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started… — Dolora Zajick Copy Share Image
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it.… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I think I was called 'the pianist' because of the way I play. It's true that I don't score many goals, just… — Miralem Pjanic Copy Share Image
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want… — Maya Angelou 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing.… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that. — John Williams Copy Share Image
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa. — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams. — Vladimir Ashkenazy Copy Share Image
Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely… — Angela Aki 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
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
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
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
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
My mother always wanted to play an instrument. Her parents never gave her that. Then it got to a point where I'd… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
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