Quotes About Steinway Piano

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

Yefim Bronfman

#2. 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

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

Van Cliburn

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

Alfred Brendel

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

Daniel Barenboim

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

Roger Williams

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

Krystian Zimerman

#8. 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

#9. I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.

Jason Marsden

#10. I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

Danny Brown

#11. People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen.

Frederick Lenz

#12. 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

#13. Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Juvenal

#14. Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example.

Susan Blackmore

#15. Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Khalil Gibran

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

Billy Taylor

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

James Levine

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

Maurizio Pollini

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

Vladimir Ashkenazy

#20. 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

#21. Strive always to improve the instrument.

Henry E. Steinway

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

Diana Krall

#23. 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

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

Billy Joel

#25. 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

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

Malcolm Gladwell

#27. For Our Purposes, I define "reading" as looking at printed words and getting enough meaning from them to satisfy your purpose.

Peter Kump

#28. A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

Brendan Behan

#29. Silence is one of many forms of prayer.

Y.I. Lee

#30. 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

#31. The late Mavis Gallant told the Paris Review that writing is like "a love affair: the beginning is the best part. I write every day. It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

Mavis Gallant

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

Bob Hope

#33. Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Zhuangzi

#34. shake him up. Get him out of his comfort zone so he could stop sneering at everybody else who was out of theirs. Get him thinking about something besides his own neuroses for a change.

Lev Grossman

#35. The Bible is the means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service.

Richard Foster

#36. Find me now. Before someone else does.

Haruki Murakami