Quotes About Steinway

#1. Build to a standard, not a price.

Henry E. Steinway

#2. When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Bob Hope

#3. I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Ahmad Jamal

#4. The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

Yefim Bronfman

#5. I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.

Evgeny Kissin

#6. When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

Emanuel Ax

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

Thomas Bernhard

#8. When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.

Maximilian Schell

#9. Make no compromise in quality.

Henry E. Steinway

#10. You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. But of course it was precisely this destruction process of my beloved Steinway that I had wanted.

Thomas Bernhard

#12. I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

Randy Newman

#13. I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

Billy Joel

#14. In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Theodore E. Steinway

#15. I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

Michel Legrand

#16. The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

Van Cliburn

#17. I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

Alfred Brendel

#18. Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

Billy Taylor

#19. The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

James Levine

#20. Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.

Maurizio Pollini

#21. It was already there," he said. "Someone left it behind. They didn't want it. The super said they couldn't even rent the apartment for a few weeks because it takes up the whole bedroom and nobody wanted to pay to take it out. Can you believe it? A Steinway." "Lucky that you play," she said. She

Alice McDermott

#22. Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

Vladimir Ashkenazy

#23. The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

Daniel Barenboim

#24. With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

Harry Connick Jr.

#25. Only my loyal Steinway piano endures. Be it beaten or caressed, its gorgeous tone remains.

Roger Williams

#26. I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

Marian McPartland

#27. We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.

Aleksey Igudesman

#28. Strive always to improve the instrument.

Henry E. Steinway

#29. It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

Diana Krall

#30. My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

Krystian Zimerman