 |
Success is a great deodorant. -Elizabeth Taylor |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength &...
The old idea . . . of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense....
Music does not exist until it is performed.
Source: Benjamin Britten's World of...
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house the color of the...
![[Music has]...](https://quotablesuccess.com/gif/CK.png)
[Music has] the beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of...
I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.
Source: In NY...
Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home...
If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one...
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. Never be...
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for...
Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish --...
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art...
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Source: On why he did not respond to applause...
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings -- it's all a miracle. I have adopted the...
Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it...
Composing a concert is like composing a menu. . . . If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after...
When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I...
Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for...