Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote by Mark Steyn

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

— Samuel Barber

Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of that, they…

— John de Lancie

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him…

— Adam Johnson

I play piano, a little Gershwin, before debates.

— Michelle Wu

“A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.”

— Kate Chopin

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better…

— Eva Ibbotson

“The little room was filled with American records and a phonograph. Izzy would let me stay back there and listen to them. I listened…

— Bob Dylan

“James Benwick is rather too piano for me;”

— Jane Austen

“People aren't pianos. You don't hit a certain note and know what you're going to get.”

— Gwendolyn Heasley

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

— Anonymous

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

— Placido Domingo

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used…

— Dave Brubeck