Alfred Brendel Quotes
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The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
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A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.
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I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody…
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If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer…
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You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
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Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
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In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of…
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Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
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You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.
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I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.
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Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains…
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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling…
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