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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted I beg his pardon.
Johannes Brahms
Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.
David Nevue
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things to move from an anarchic individualistic state to a regulated perfectly concious one which alone insures vitality and durability.
Igor Stravinsky
By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.
Béla Bartók
I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
Oscar Levant
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.
George Szell
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
Andre Previn
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Nat King Cole
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Fridiric Chopin
Life holds so much so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.
Artur Rubinstein
A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.
Kenny Werner
A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust;Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasureA life, in recollection, truly possessed.
Robert Wells
I have inflammation of the imagination.
Lera Auerbach
I would say that Op 31 had brought music just to the very edge … I just simply drew back and said, “beyond that lies complete chaos”.
Leo Ornstein
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
Igor Stravinsky