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When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other… — Robert Moog
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music. — Yoko Ono
'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again. — Vidal Sassoon
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. — Carly Simon
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher… — Nina Simone
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard… — Nina Simone
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that… — Steven Spielberg
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in… — David Ogden Stiers
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll… — Alan Sugar
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day… — Amy Tan
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was… — Twyla Tharp
This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be… — Ayn Rand
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing… — Tom Stoppard
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and… — Peter Watts
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own. — David Benioff
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that. — John Williams
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a… — Athol Fugard
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record,… — Amanda Eliasch
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades -… — Daniel Breaker
I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the… — Kirsten Nelson
I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. — Kirsten Nelson
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s. — Christian McKay
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman. — Pat Metheny
The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by… — Charles Munch
I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now. — Josh Silver

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