Sviatoslav Richter Quotes

• Put a small piano in a truck and drive out on country roads; take time to discover new scenery; stop in a pretty place where there is a good church; upload the piano and tell the residents; give a concert; offer flowers to the people who have been so kind as to attend; leave again.

  Sviatoslav Richter

  Country, Flower, Piano

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• I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror. Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.

  Sviatoslav Richter

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations". Book by Bruno Monsaingeon, 2001.

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