Pianist Quotes
Collection of top 67 famous quotes about Pianist
Pianist Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Pianist quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
— Jack O'Brien
I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.
— Bobby Robson
To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
— Victoria De Los Angeles
Smugly on the other side of Kelly, our pianist, who'd opted
— Tammara Webber
Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.
— Dino Kartsonakis
Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.
— Igor Markevitch
I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on.
— Kirsten Nelson
I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard.
— Ann Brashares
Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
— Nina Simone
I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so I will refrain.
— Julie Halpern
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
— Pat Metheny
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
— Jeff Buckley
I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job, but my second dream job would be to be a concert pianist.
— Robert Emms
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
— Carla Bruni
They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
— Stephen Sondheim
I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.
— Amy Lee
I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.
— Josh Silver
There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.
— John Kander
I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.
— Chris Murray
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
— Yoko Ono
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
— Nat Wolff
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.
— Frederic Chopin
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
— John Williams
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!
— Frankie Cosmos
Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.
— Janina Gavankar
'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
— Vidal Sassoon
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
— Gad Elmaleh
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.
— David Benioff
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
— Andrea Bocelli
There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called 'Sketch Book'; his name is Vardan Ovsepian
— Brad Mehldau
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
A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.
— Kate Chopin
I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
— Oscar Levant
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
— Carly Simon
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
My dream job is being a pianist
— Robert Pattinson
I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.
— Cory Michael Smith
And most of the time, when you're young and dumb - you know everything! Charles Freeman Lee bebop pianist and trumpeter
— Annette Johnson
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
Above the rush-hour din it was her ideal self she heard, the pianist she could never become, performing faultlessly Bach's second partita.
— Ian McEwan
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
— Bernie Worrell
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
— Christian McKay
My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.
— Ronald Kessler
Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.
— Jeffrey Tate
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
— Charles Kimbrough
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
— Skitch Henderson
Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below.
— Ella Leya
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?
— Steven Wright
I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.
— Gene Lees
These hands are steady enough, but they are large. Had he been a proper pianist - he's dabbled inexpertly - his ten-note span might be of use.
— Ian McEwan
I'm not really a pianist.
— Harold Budd
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
— Michael Levine
Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.
— Jeffrey Fry
To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.
— Thomas Bernhard
Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.
— Arthur Rubinstein
Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.
— Vladimir Ashkenazy
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
I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
— Nat King Cole