Art Quote by Donal Henahan

“I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands…

— Ann Brashares

“The work had its own history of struggle. Originally intended as a showpiece for pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, it was dismissed by that renowned pianist…

— Stuart Isacoff

“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.”

— Solomon Volkov

“Peterson revealed that he had decided the only way to get attention was “to frighten the hell out of everybody pianistically.”

— Stuart Isacoff

“When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood…

— Nate Denver

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music, that the…

— Marcel Proust

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a…

— Anonymous

What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on…

— Maria Callas

“Throughout the performance Levin felt like a deaf person watching a dance. He was quite perplexed when the music stopped and felt very tired…

— Leo Tolstoy

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

— Oscar Wilde

“A great pianist was once asked by an admirer, "How do you handle the notes as well as you do?" The artist replied, "The…

— Arthur Schnabel