Steinway Quotes

Strive always to improve the instrument.

— Henry E. Steinway

“THREE WEEKS LATER, THE Steinway commission announced its decision.”

— Doug Most

Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

— Maurizio Pollini

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

— Alfred Brendel

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

— Malcolm Gladwell

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

— Billy Taylor

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

— Daniel Barenboim

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

— Krystian Zimerman

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

— Vladimir Ashkenazy

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as…

— Ahmad Jamal

When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

— Emanuel Ax

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

— Billy Joel

I was very fortunate to take piano lessons from a young age, and the only times that we were able to play…

— Andrew W.K

“The advantages of [a Steinway concert grand]--highly different as it is from the usual rich, mellow and quietly brilliant Steinway--lie not only…

— Samuel Lipman

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

— Thomas Bernhard

I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no…

— Evgeny Kissin

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

— Harry Connick, Jr

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

— Bob Hope

“But of course it was precisely this destruction process of my beloved Steinway that I had wanted.”

— Thomas Bernhard

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

— Marian McPartland

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

— Diana Krall

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

— James Levine

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

— Yefim Bronfman

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear…

— Michel Legrand

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

— Van Cliburn

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best…

— Randy Newman