Composition Quote by Vladimir Horowitz

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

— Vladimir Horowitz

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

— Vladimir Horowitz

Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like…

— Vladimir Horowitz

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

— Vladimir Horowitz

The most important thing is to make a percussive instrument a singing instrument. Teachers should stress this aspect in their instruction, but it seems…

— Vladimir Horowitz

Behind the notes, something different is told, and that's what the interpreter must find out. He may sit down and play one passage one…

— Vladimir Horowitz

Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a little overboard.…

— Vladimir Horowitz

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is…

— Vladimir Horowitz

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

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

— Vladimir Horowitz

The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots.

— Vladimir Horowitz

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

— Vladimir Horowitz