Active Quote by Jon Pareles

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

— David Baker

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had…

— Etta James

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

— Cecil Taylor

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

— Vladimir Ashkenazy

I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.

— Richard Clayderman

I'm not really a pianist.

— Harold Budd

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call…

— Duke Ellington

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

— Chrisette Michele

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

— Atticus Ross

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

— Gary Oldman

Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize…

— Francesca Lia Block