Arthur Quote by Rafal Blechacz

Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and…

— Chet Atkins

It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach - my first…

— Rafal Blechacz

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

— Rafal Blechacz

Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues, but I…

— Vladimir Horowitz

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

— John Petrucci

The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini…

— Carlo Grante

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used…

— Dave Brubeck

I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor…

— Susan Choi

Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.

— Krzysztof Penderecki