"Composing a concert is like composing a menu....……" — Arthur Rubinstein
"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."
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29 Quotes by Arthur Rubinstein
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The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
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We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
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...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally.…
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one…
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To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life…
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People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.
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At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to…
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I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense,…
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I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free…
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Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle…
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When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.
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When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a…
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