Pianists Quotes

When I was studying... there weren`t any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!