Van Cliburn Quotes

• If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

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  Inspiration, Anchors, World

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• Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

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  Love, Dream, Heart

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• But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

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  Strong, Forever, May

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• I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

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  Texas, Proud, Matter

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• The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

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  Inspirational, Bricks, Life Is

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• The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

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  Art, Drama, Piano

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• I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

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  Sensations

  "Cold War, Hot Pianist. Now Add 50 Years" by Anthony Tommasini, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 2008.

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• An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

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  Music, Artist, Might

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• Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

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  People, Competition, Pieces

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