Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables. — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience.… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of the act and what it brings.” — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence, nature, God,… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
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