"Sometimes when I sit own to practice and……" — Arthur Rubinstein
"Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me."
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29 Quotes by Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after…
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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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I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two…
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There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
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I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they…
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Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.
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The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated…
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Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary…
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Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: `Basement?'
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What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the…
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We learned this week that Mitt Romney is building a car elevator in his house. An elevator for your cars.…
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It's one of many ways that Barack shows me and the girls how special we are. And that's the thing…
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