Great Pianist Quotes

#1. It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

Jack O'Brien

#2. If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

St. Jerome

#3. I think that turning on the charm without being fake is really important.

Miley Cyrus

#4. 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

#5. I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

Susan Powter

#6. 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

#7. Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

PZ Myers

#8. If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

Woody Allen

#9. You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

Deborah Bull

#10. 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 and so forth, but he can really blow.

Chick Corea

#11. Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice.

Eric Butterworth

#12. It's very hard to find a pianist that's willing to play the so-called accompanist role on part of the program and yet be capable of being a great solo pianist that you would want for the big sonatas.

Joshua Bell

#13. It is in our biology, this reptilian feeling of wanting what the next guy has.

Ruby Wax

#14. I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

Keith Emerson

#15. Though the platitude - money can't buy happiness - may be comforting to those who are less than well heeled, great wealth doesn't ensure sadness either.

Bill Dedman

#16. Doesn't matter what you believe in. Do you think things will stop or change because you've forgotten what the bogeyman looks like? Maybe that's what pissed it off, so to speak. It doesn't like being forgotten. So it decided to shake things up a little.

Jeyn Roberts

#17. Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on the Dean Martin Show and I'm very proud to call him a friend!

Lainie Kazan

#18. It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

Ian Holloway

#19. Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.

David Moyes

#20. I want you to figure out a way to stop that from happening.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know.

Brandon Routh

#22. A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano ... being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.

Jose Mourinho