Blood Quote by Arthur Rubinstein

I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a…

— Philip Glass

To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do.…

— Vladimir Horowitz

If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who…

— Jeremy Denk

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play,…

— Peter C. Doherty

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used…

— Dave Brubeck

I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor…

— Susan Choi

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

— Daniel Tammet

“Now and again an echo of Chopin’s music rings in my ears, and this much you absorb me that, at such moments I always…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

— Rafal Blechacz

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

— John Petrucci

The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini…

— Carlo Grante

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski