Pianist Quotes

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.

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

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.

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

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

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.

Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely dream of mine.

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

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.

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.

Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist.

Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.

Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

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.

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist.

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.