Quotes of: Concert-pianist Keyword

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Ray Manzarek

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

John Berger

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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

Dave Brubeck

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

Henryk Szpilman: I told her not to worry, you had your papers on you. If you'd been hit by a bomb, they'd have known where to take you.

The Pianist

Henryk Szpilman: Ah, more Jewish police. You mean you want me to beat up Jews and catch the Gestapo spirit? I see.

The Pianist

Wladyslaw Szpilman: It's a funny time to say this, but... [trailing off] Halina: What? Wladyslaw Szpilman: I wish I knew you better.

The Pianist

Wladyslaw Szpilman: What... what do you think you'll do while you're setting up your new line of defense? Wander around luggin' your suitcases?

The Pianist

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

Vanessa Carlton

At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.

Christine Lavin

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Luc Ferrari

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

Martin Short

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

Emanuel Ax

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Bill Gates

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

Patrick Swayze

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

Will Champion

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

Peter Garrett

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

June Allyson

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

David Ogden Stiers

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score

Frederick the Great