Artur Schnabel Quotes

#1. Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

Artur Schnabel

#2. Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

Artur Schnabel

#3. I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Artur Schnabel

#4. Even the most brilliant and rational person, in the heat of passion, seems to be absolutely and completely divorced from the person he thought he was.

Dan Ariely

#5. I practice in my head.

Artur Schnabel

#6. The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Artur Schnabel

#7. We're prepared, and we've done everything we can to prepare for this moment in time. That's what confidence is all about.

Lisa Fernandez

#8. Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range,

Artur Schnabel

#9. It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Artur Schnabel

#10. I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

Artur Schnabel

#11. I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer.

Artur Schnabel

#12. ...those victories they boast were not the substantial joys of the happy, but the empty comforts of wretched men...

Augustine Of Hippo

#13. Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

S.A. Tawks

#14. I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing.

Artur Schnabel

#15. When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

Artur Schnabel

#16. Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

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#17. Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

Artur Schnabel

#18. I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.

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#19. The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.

Artur Schnabel

#20. Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

#21. Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

Pablo Casals

#22. I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.

Artur Schnabel

#23. Great music is better than it can be performed.

Artur Schnabel

#24. Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.

Elizabeth Taylor