Arthur Rubinstein Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Light, Vegetables, Play

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• Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Life, Depressing, Sick

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• 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

  Air, Secret, Special

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• 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

  Girl, Children, Father

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• 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

  Good Friend, Games, Laughing

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• 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

  Father, Mistake, Heart

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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

  Men, Practice, Rooms

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• I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Music, Tired, Concerts

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