Young Pianist Quotes

#1. As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

John Williams

#2. A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing us all, his very strong commitment & motivation to aim for high musical goals. Talent like his is rare.

Steve Lacy

#3. It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.

Cary Fukunaga

#4. Some people choose their style at the age of 14, but I changed mine all the time.

Louis Garrel

#5. And most of the time, when you're young and dumb - you know everything! Charles Freeman Lee bebop pianist and trumpeter

Annette Johnson

#6. Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.

Kim Gordon

#7. That heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer might be caused by the kinds of carbohydrates consumed in modern diets has also been the conclusion of many doctors and researchers who observed primitive populations as they began to eat these foods.

Nina Teicholz

#8. father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news,

Nicholas Sparks

#9. 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."

Elizabeth Taylor

#10. Standing is stupid,
Crawling's a curse,
Skipping is silly,
Walking is worse.
Hopping is hopeless,
Jumping's a chore,
Sitting is senseless,
Leaning's a bore.
Running's ridiculous,
Jogging's insane-
Guess I'll go upstairs and
Lie down again.

Shel Silverstein

#11. A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

Epictetus

#12. I can't fall asleep at night when reading a good book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others ... Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.

Clayton Christensen

#14. I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me.

Mike Stoller

#15. We cannot. . .begin any real inquiry into Truth, with any assumption or belief whatsoever. We must be willing to see things as they are, rather than as we hope, wish, or expect them to be.

Steve Hagen

#16. One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.

Neel Burton

#17. The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

Rebecca Latimer Felton

#18. When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

Steven Spielberg

#19. If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

Donald Miller