I studied with Felix Blumenfeld, who had studied piano with Anton Rubinstein and composition with Tchaikovsky. Felix, my professor, was the right hand of Anton Rubinstein. Blumenfeld knew his playing by heart, from every angle. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to make a percussive instrument a singing instrument. Teachers should stress this aspect in their instruction, but it seems… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Behind the notes, something different is told, and that's what the interpreter must find out. He may sit down and play one passage one… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a little overboard.… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues, but I… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
