Top 40 Arthur Rubinstein Quotes
#1. I love Arthur Rubinstein, especially his live recordings. I think his Chopin Mazurkas, his interpretation of the Polonaises, and the Concertos of Chopin are just incredible. When I was a child, I wanted to play more and more Chopin because of his recordings.
Rafal Blechacz
#2. The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
Arthur Rubinstein
#3. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#4. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#5. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
#6. 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!
Arthur Rubinstein
#7. Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Arthur Rubinstein
#8. I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody.
Jay London
#9. So what if you believe it can't be done. Stop trying to prevent those who do believe from reaching for the stars.
Teyla Branton
#10. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#11. In living with, rather than relentlessly fighting their cancer, they ultimately live longer.
Ira Byock
#12. Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.
Susan Block
#13. It was in the nature of this sacrifice that it should appear to be pointless in the normal world, the world of material success.
Viktor E. Frankl
#14. I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.
Karch Kiraly
#15. The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
Karl Kraus
#16. Winter. It made things visible.
Ali Smith
#17. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#18. There's the slightly intoxicating feeling that accompanies the largest blizzards - the realization that there's a chance, increasing by every second, that you are about to be trapped by beauty.
Rick Bass
#19. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#20. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#21. Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.
Arthur Rubinstein
#22. People are always setting conditions for happiness ... I love life without condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
#23. Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.
Vinita Kinra
#24. We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#25. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#26. You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
Arthur Rubinstein
#27. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
#28. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#29. People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.
Lee Westwood
#31. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#32. In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.
Laurie Cunningham
#34. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#35. Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.
Arthur Rubinstein
#36. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#37. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
#38. We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
Arthur Rubinstein
#39. It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword.
Ingtar Shinowa
Robert Jordan
#40. 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.
Arthur Rubinstein
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