Quotes of: Concert-pianist Keyword

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

Athol Fugard

Wladyslaw Szpilman: I don't know how to thank you. Captain Wilm Hosenfeld: Thank God, not me. He wants us to survive. Well, that's what we have to believe.

The Pianist

Jurek: [after Dorota meets Wladek] Come on Dorota, you can write him a fan letter later, this isn't the best time. Come on. Wladyslaw Szpilman: Jurek! Where have you been hiding her?

The Pianist

Halina: Have you seen this? Wladyslaw Szpilman: [impatient] What? What? I'm working. What? What is this? Halina: It's where they're going to put us. Wladyslaw Szpilman: What do you mean "put us"?

The Pianist

Mother: [crying] 20 zloty, that's all we have left, 20 zolty. What can I buy with 20 zloty? I am sick of cooking potatoes, potatoes, potatoes.

The Pianist

Father: What do you think? Should I, should I take Uncle Szymon's portrait? Mother: Take it, don't take it, take what you like! [sigh] Mother: Can't you see I'm worried sick?

The Pianist

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Robert Moog

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

Fran Drescher

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.

LZ Granderson

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

Pete Townshend

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

Sarah Paulson

It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.

Shania Twain

La politique au milieu des intérêts d'imagination, c'est un coup de pistolet au milieu d'un concert.

Stendhal

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

Tracy Morgan

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Ken Kesey

I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published)

Katrina D. Miller

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

Lara St. John

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Shelley Berman

Michael Jackson had a stable vision. He had a strong message, not only pop. People just fainted at his concert.

Miyavi

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

Bruce Johnston

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

Faith Hill