Vladimir Horowitz Quotes

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

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

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#3. Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

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#4. My face is my passport.

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#5. Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

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

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#7. The piano is an orchestra with 88 ... things, you know

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#8. I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

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#9. There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.

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#10. Perfection itself is imperfection

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

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

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#13. I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

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