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I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt…

— Alan Hovhaness

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

— John Williams

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

— Skitch Henderson

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way…

— Jerry Hunt

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

— Zedd

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.

— Josh Silver

I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going to be…

— James Newton Howard

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep…

— Burt Bacharach

I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and…

— Yoko Shimomura

I applied to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and didn't get in the first year, so I worked at Costa…

— Chloe Pirrie