Arthur Rubinstein Quotes

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• The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
• We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
• ...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness…
• ...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…
• To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
• People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.
• At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want…
• I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so…
• 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…
• I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be…
• Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for…
• When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.
• When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head…
• When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old.…
• Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.
• It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the…
• What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an…
• You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
• I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will…
• I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

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