But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, becau….

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

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to….

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, ….

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it..

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all..

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practi….

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which….

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet..

The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I th….

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind.….

I think I'm a very poor piano player..

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I ….

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti..

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too..

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano..

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid..

[Thelonious] Monk is a subject in itself. I mean, most piano players in most big bands sit down and they play with the band, you know. But Monk would….

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me w….

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying….