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If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. — Max Hastings
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. — Bernie Worrell
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood. — Skitch Henderson
Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful… — Robert Greenberg
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands… — Robert Greenberg
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed… — Bob Brookmeyer
A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen — Bob Brookmeyer
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I… — Alan Hovhaness
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a… — Rachel Corrie
There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists. — Vladimir Horowitz
Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams. — Unknown Author
Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in… — Alexander Kotov
Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is… — Irwin Shaw
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. — Anton Rubinstein
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family. — Unknown Author
I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist. — Bobby Robson
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
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist. — John E. Walker
Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge… — Jon Pareles
A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing us all, his… — Steve Lacy
Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer. — Placido Domingo
It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage… — Ian Holloway
I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and… — Andrew Wyeth
Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the… — Pat Ament
It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune. — Rene Coty

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