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Classical Pianist Inspirational Quotes (70)

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The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.
Russell Sherman
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Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
Emanuel Ax
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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
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The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.
Russell Sherman
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Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.
Emanuel Ax
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Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
Cecil Taylor
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As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have the idea that you can find a colour that is better for one composer or another, even if it’s an illusion, this generates enormous pleasure.
Maurizio Pollini
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It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.
Jeremy Denk
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The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.
Russell Sherman
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If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
Emanuel Ax
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I usually only play with very close friends.
Emanuel Ax
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In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.
Cecil Taylor
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You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
Cecil Taylor
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How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.
Emanuel Ax
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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
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Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.
Artur Schnabel
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Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night.
Yuja Wang
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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
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To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.
Russell Sherman
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Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.
Krystian Zimerman
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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
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I practice in my head.
Artur Schnabel
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