Quotes of: Pianists Keyword

I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn't call him a non-pianist, because he's really a great pianist, but he doesn't feature it that much - he uses his keyboards and his piano technique to support his great songs a...

Chick Corea

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

Bernie Worrell

Man is more attractive when left to the imagination.

The Pianist in the Dark: A Novel

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Anton Rubinstein

Yehuda: [introducing Wladek] Majorek, this is the greatest pianist in Poland, maybe the whole world.

The Pianist

Mary: That was beautiful to watch, Howard. Like a surgeon or a concert pianist.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Alan Hovhaness

Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably.

The Pianist in the Dark: A Novel

Captain Wilm Hosenfeld: What is your name? So I can listen for you. Wladyslaw Szpilman: My name is Szpilman. Captain Wilm Hosenfeld: Spielmann? That is a good name, for a pianist.

The Pianist

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Nina Simone

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

I'm not really a pianist.

Harold Budd

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

Skitch Henderson

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

Cory Michael Smith

Wladyslaw Szpilman: They all want to be better Nazis than Hitler.

The Pianist

Man Waiting to Cross: A bridge, a shmidge.

The Pianist

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

Frank Langella

Radio announcer: Poland is no longer alone.

The Pianist

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

Victoria de los Angeles

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

Vidal Sassoon

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

John E. Walker