Claudio Arrau Quotes

#1. The youth of Idaho falls should be encouraged to take drugs in order to cope up with the fact that there is plutonium in their drinking water.

Bill Bryson

#2. Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

Claudio Arrau

#3. When I am on the opera stage, I am playing someone else. In recitals, I even have the chance to talk to the audience, which is something you don't get to do in opera.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#4. I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.

Claudio Arrau

#5. I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

Claudio Arrau

#6. I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

Ken Kesey

#7. The body is a rock; the arms are snakes

Claudio Arrau

#8. So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

Mary Engelbreit

#9. Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#10. The mother of creation is vanity.

Kedar Joshi

#11. If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

Confucius

#12. France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.

Victor Hugo

#13. Good stories will tell you that facing the lie is the worst terror of all. And there is no talisman or magic sword that is half so potent a weapon as truth

Tad Williams

#14. It's a lot easier for our children to look forward to a hopeful future if they have the confidence that we are doing all we can, while they are in our care, to groom them for the future.

Tim Kimmel

#15. I think of him now, ragged and lost, staggering across a desert, the path behind him littered with all the shiny little pieces that life has ripped from him.

Khaled Hosseini

#16. When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.

Claudio Arrau

#17. In everything, there is a share of everything

Anaxagoras

#18. An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

Claudio Arrau

#19. I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.

Thomas Hoving

#20. The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

Richard Steele

#21. In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Christopher Fry