Quotes of: Pianists Keyword

I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job, but my second dream job would be to be a concert pianist.

Robert Emms

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

John Williams

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

Christian McKay

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

Emanuel Ax

Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

Arthur C. Clarke

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Michael Levine

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

Daniel Breaker

Dorota: No-one play Chopin like you. Wladyslaw Szpilman: I hope that's a compliment.

The Pianist

Wladyslaw Szpilman: [taking off his watch] Here, sell this. Food is more important than time.

The Pianist

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Alan Sugar

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

Dave Brubeck

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

Artur Schnabel

A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.

The Awakening

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

Kurt Masur

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

Oscar Peterson

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Roberta Flack

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Steve Lacy

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

Kerry Washington

I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first wom...

Rachel Corrie

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Cy Coleman

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Billy Joel