A Quote by Krystian Zimerman

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

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Krystian Zimerman
Polish - Musician
Born: December 5, 1956

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

Yefim Bronfman

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

I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.

John Paulson

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

Keith Richards

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

Alfred Brendel

Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.

Nils Frahm

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Van Cliburn

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

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

Daniel Barenboim

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

Billy Taylor

living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise, the best things might get left out