We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.
As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.
Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.
For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.
You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.
Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.
To retire is to begin to die.
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.
If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
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