Arthur Rubinstein Quotes

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• Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

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  Encouragement, Growth, Hard

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• I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

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  Life, Happiness, People

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• You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

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  Music, Play, Piano

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• Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

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  Art, Character, Greatness

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• Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

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  Love, Life, Positive Thinking

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• At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.

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  Making Love, Risk, Different

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• We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

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  Life, Accepting, Existence

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• 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.

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  Live Life, Journey, Miracle

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• 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.

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  Passion, Outlook On Life, Expression

  "Rubinstein Was His Music" by John Guinn, Detroit Free Press, p. 8D, December 22, 1982.

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• I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.

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  Blood, Practice, Play

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• 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.

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  Would Be, Want, Chains

  "The Magic of Rubinstein..." by Alan M. Kriegsmen, The Washington Post, p. B7, January 26, 1977.

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• 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!

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  Beautiful, Brain, Blonde

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• ...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

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  Inspirational Life, Acceptance, People

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• Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence, nature, God, or what I would call the power of creation seems to favor human beings who accept and love life unconditionally, and I am certainly one who does with all my heart.

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  Heart, Love Life, And Love

  "My Young Years". Book by Arthur Rubinstein, 1973.

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• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

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  Wine, Glasses, Dust

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• When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.

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  Play, Making Love

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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.

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  Thinking, Blood, Vampire

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• 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.

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  Color, House, Miracle

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• People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.

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  Love Life, People, Settings

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Wedding, Believe

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• 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.

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  Marriage, Young, Used

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• 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.

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  Paris, People, Cafes

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• Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

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  Light, Vegetables, Play

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