Quotes by Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein

…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.

Acceptance

Inspirational Life

People

…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!’

Dust

Glasses

Wine

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.

Different

Making Love

Risk

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.

Light

Play

Vegetables

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

Encouragement

Growth

Hard

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.

Air

Secret

Special

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.

Blood

Play

Practice

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.

Beautiful

Believe

Wedding

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.

Games

Good Friend

Laughing

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

Life

Love

Positive Thinking

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Acceptance

Air

Art

Beautiful

Believe

Blonde

Blood

Brain

Character

Children

Different

Dust

Encouragement

Father

Games

Girl

Glasses

Good Friend

Greatness

Growth

Happiness

Hard

Heart

Inspirational

Inspirational Life

Journey

Laughing

Life

Light

Live Life

Love

Making Love

Marriage

Men

Miracle

Mistake

Motivational

Music

People

Perfect

Piano

Play

Positive Thinking

Practice

Risk

Rooms

Secret

Special

Spring

Symphony

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Quotes by Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein

…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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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