Arthur Rubinstein Quotes

#1. 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 mine - and that's all I want to have.

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#2. You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

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#3. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

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#4. Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

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#5. I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

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#6. My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.

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#7. People are always setting conditions for happiness ... I love life without condition.

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#8. Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

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#9. 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. Middle age was the hardest part.

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#10. Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

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#11. The result was magnificent ... I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

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#12. 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.

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#13. We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

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#14. 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 not breathe. That is a great, great moment.

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#15. Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

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#16. 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 the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

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#17. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

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#18. What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

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#19. Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

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#20. At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I find it's been going on all the time and I'm in the third movement.

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#21. The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

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#22. 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 and discover new things all the time.

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#23. 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 piano.

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#24. I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

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#25. Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

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