Arrangements Quote by Michael Hersch

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind…

— Jascha Heifetz

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being…

— Suzi Quatro

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

— Charles Hazlewood

The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous…

— Michael Hersch

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

— James Huneker

“...as a pianist, I can’t say I was always a big fan of contemporary music. The challenge of late Beethoven, or Mozart, or Schubert…

— Leon Fleisher

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

— Jim Coleman

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

— Sergei Prokofiev

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

— Kiana Tom

I'm very fond of piano players.

— Michael Parkinson

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

— Sergei Prokofiev

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

— Gary Oldman