Vladimir Horowitz Quotes

• 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

  Heart, Piano, Common Sense

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

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  Three, Kind, Homosexual

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• Perfection itself is imperfection.

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  Perfection, Imperfection, Not Being Perfect

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• 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.

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  Life, Success, Mistake

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• False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Piano, Perfect, Doe

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Home, Piano

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

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  Nature, Cutting, Tree

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

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  Heart, Giving, Feelings

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

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Play, Yesterday, Style

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

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  Piano, Orchestra, Knows

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

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Past, My Past, My Future

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

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  Mistake, Play, Dynamics

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• My face is my passport.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Faces, Passports

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