My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California… — Dave Brubeck 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for… — William Sleator Copy Share Image
In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I joined an all-girl band in Detroit and, although I was a pianist and drummer, I was asked to play bass because… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up… — Donal Henahan 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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Right at the beginning, before the pianist could get her wheels up and fly into that storm, she was hit with a… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
“Alkan even wrote a piece for four feet, called Bombardo-Carillon, in which the player’s legs are likely to get entangled during performance.… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
Oscar Peterson is my favorite all-around pianist. There are pianists I like because of one thing and pianists I like because of… — Carmen McRae Copy Share Image
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