Classical music Quote by Christopher Plummer

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

— Zedd

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was…

— Kirsten Nelson

Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands. Then I…

— Simon Helberg

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going to be…

— James Newton Howard

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was…

— Mike Stoller

My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations,…

— Gunther Schuller

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical…

— Frankie Cosmos

I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably…

— Condoleezza Rice

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work…

— Nina Simone

I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any way. It…

— Melody Gardot

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on.

— Kirsten Nelson