Vladimir Horowitz Quotes

#1. The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine.

David Finckel

#2. Faith is the only known cure for fear.

Lena Sadler

#3. If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.

Kathy Calvin

#4. I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

Vladimir Horowitz

#5. Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

Vladimir Horowitz

#6. Your mind must control, but you must have heart ... Give your feeling free.

Vladimir Horowitz

#7. Perfection itself is imperfection

Vladimir Horowitz

#8. I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

#9. Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the life of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives

Dallas Willard

#10. There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.

Vladimir Horowitz

#11. I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Vladimir Horowitz

#12. Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary.

Mikey Way

#13. The piano is an orchestra with 88 ... things, you know

Vladimir Horowitz

#14. My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

Vladimir Horowitz

#15. Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

Vladimir Horowitz

#16. I don't need to Google myself.

Nicki Minaj

#17. My face is my passport.

Vladimir Horowitz

#18. Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

Vladimir Horowitz

#19. I have no style, because I change each time ... each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

Vladimir Horowitz

#20. Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

John F. Kennedy

#21. First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college ... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing

DJ Spooky

#22. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

Vladimir Horowitz