Piano Player Quote by Tom Robbins

“On the subject of Egypt, Ellen Cherry was so vague she thought Ramses II was a jazz piano player. From that, we might conclude…

— Tom Robbins

“I will tell you what she was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”

— Angela Carter

“This was a pretty girl, except she had legs like an Edwardian grand piano...”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The extraordinary mystique of hers made you think she lived on rose petals and listened to nothing but Mozart, but it wasn't true. She…

— Andre Previn

“As the Egyptians say, Ramses can hear a whisper across the Nile.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“But when she got going, on numbers like “Pulse Fiction” and “Delancey Street Blues,” she had that same air of having been possessed by…

— Barry Eisler

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

“She was cool— the whole world seemed to spin around her in smooth jazz.”

— Atticus Poetry

“The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”

— Louis Armstrong

“Yet both the horse and the piano knew her and didn’t care how she compared with her former self. They were hers. She was…

— Marie Rutkoski

“Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds,…

— Megan Lindholm