Top 98 Rubinstein Quotes
#1. In some sense, we're all cavemen - we can't imagine anything more frightening than a ghost or a vampire. But the violation of the principle of causality - that's actually much scarier than a whole herd of ghosts ... or Rubinstein's monsters ... or is that Wallenstein?"
"Frankenstein.
Arkady Strugatsky
#2. If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.
Jascha Heifetz
#3. I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.
Boris Gelfand
#4. A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein
Mark Rubinstein
#5. There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.
David Bronstein
#6. [Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.
Donal Henahan
#7. The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
Donal Henahan
#8. 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
#9. I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
#10. A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.
Garry Kasparov
#11. Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein
Mark Rubinstein
#12. A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.
Mark Rubinstein
#13. 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
#14. Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.
Mark Rubinstein
#15. That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.
Eva Rubinstein
#17. 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
#18. Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.
Mark Rubinstein
#19. A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.
Mark Rubinstein
#20. Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Arthur Rubinstein
#21. 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
#22. If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.
Mark Rubinstein
#23. The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work ...
Helena Rubinstein
#24. When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die.
Mark Rubinstein
#25. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
#26. A writer's refuge is imagination and the possibilities it provides.
Mark Rubinstein
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. You don't have to make any decisions right now," Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."
~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice
Mark Rubinstein
#30. Don't write for the market or for others. Write what you know, love and above all, write what you would love to read.
Mark Rubinstein
#31. A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.
Mark Rubinstein
#32. I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.
Helena Rubinstein
#35. All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.
Helena Rubinstein
#36. Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.
Arthur Rubinstein
#37. Every day can be a pilgrimage, if the goal is a deeper sense of your small role in the revolving world.
Dan Rubinstein
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. A writer has only three tools: language, experience and imagination.
Mark Rubinstein
#41. 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
#42. Creative imagination is a mystery. If you let it flow, it will happen, & you won't know how the idea came to you. It will just materialize.
Mark Rubinstein
#45. Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.
Zelda Rubinstein
#46. I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.
Mark Rubinstein
#47. Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
Anton Rubinstein
#48. Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.
Mark Rubinstein
#49. If you write what you love everything else will follow.
Mark Rubinstein
#50. I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.
Helena Rubinstein
#51. What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.
Eva Rubinstein
#53. The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
Arthur Rubinstein
#54. Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog
Mark Rubinstein
#55. Kenny, when's the last time you had a physical," Roddy asks.
"What're you...the designated driver of my life?"
"Mad Dog House
Mark Rubinstein
#56. 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
#57. 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
#59. People are always setting conditions for happiness ... I love life without condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
#60. Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things.
Mark Rubinstein
#61. 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
#62. I'm not a southern lady, I'm from Pennsylvania and we speak sort of correctly there. People identify me that way and they also easily identify me on the street because of my short stature. I get picked out in many ways and no way is a burden.
Zelda Rubinstein
#64. I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.
Helena Rubinstein
#66. A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.
Mark Rubinstein
#68. A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.
Mark Rubinstein
#69. 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
#70. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
#71. Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
Akiba Rubinstein
#72. I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.
Helena Rubinstein
#73. You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
Arthur Rubinstein
#74. A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.
Mark Rubinstein
#75. Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.
Helena Rubinstein
#76. 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
#77. Though teachers pride themselves on having developed bionic hearing (the phrase "I heard that" is a common part of many teachers' vocabularies), sometimes it is better to conceal such super-human powers.
Gary Rubinstein
#78. If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.
Mark Rubinstein
#79. Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.
Helena Rubinstein
#80. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
Anton Rubinstein
#81. Good or evil, it doesn't really matter, so long as your novel's character is interesting.
Mark Rubinstein
#82. A writer must learn to be comfortable with buried, shadowy currents deep in the mind, those that form dreams & make hidden connections.
Mark Rubinstein
#83. I feel very vulnerable at Halloween. I feel that people who might come to the door might not have candy intentions. I'm a little lady and I can be overcome.
Zelda Rubinstein
#84. Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.
Mark Rubinstein
#85. A good novel takes the reader into the heart of another person. It lands you smack into the life and times of someone else.
Mark Rubinstein
#86. 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
#88. We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
Arthur Rubinstein
#89. It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is. She can still apply makeup.
Helena Rubinstein
#90. The dead are silenced and the living are speechless.Who's going to tell their stories if I don't?
Gillian Rubinstein
#91. Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it
Mark Rubinstein
#92. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.
Helena Rubinstein
#93. A writer's refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.
Mark Rubinstein
#94. Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!
Helena Rubinstein
#96. The interaction between author and reader is the most intimate in the world of art. The reader's imagination shares and completes the writer's.
Mark Rubinstein
#97. Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book...absolute heaven.
Mark Rubinstein
#98. 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
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