Acts Quote by Leo Ornstein

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

— Stephen Hough

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

— Arthur Rubinstein

Really, I don't feel I'm a great piano player, but other people think so.

— Fats Domino

I'm not really a pianist.

— Harold Budd

When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.

— Leon Russell

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

— Roger Moore

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

— Richard Clayderman

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have…

— David Bowie

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by…

— Billy Joel

I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a…

— Frederick Lenz

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

— Jeremy Denk

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance…

— Helene Grimaud