Piano Sing Quotes by Vladimir Horowitz

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Vladimir Horowitz has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices:…
• Perfection itself is imperfection.
• There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.
• Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
• My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
• False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
• If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
• I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it.…
• Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.
• My face is my passport.
• I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

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