Top 24 Artur Schnabel Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.
Elizabeth Taylor
#4. I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.
Artur Schnabel
#5. Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.
Pablo Casals
#6. Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
#7. The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
Artur Schnabel
#8. 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.
Artur Schnabel
#9. Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.
Artur Schnabel
#12. I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing.
Artur Schnabel
#13. Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.
Artur Schnabel
#14. ...those victories they boast were not the substantial joys of the happy, but the empty comforts of wretched men...
Augustine Of Hippo
#15. I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer.
Artur Schnabel
#16. 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
#17. It is not music's function to express rational necessities.
Artur Schnabel
#18. Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range,
Artur Schnabel
#19. 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
#20. The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
Artur Schnabel
#22. 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
#23. I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.
Artur Schnabel
#24. 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
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