Jascha Heifetz Quotes

• If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Music, Guitar, Practice

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• There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Perfection, Want, Enough

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• Practice like it means everything in the world to you. Perform like you don't give a damn.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Mean, Practice, Giving

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• There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Success, Stars, Business

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• I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Writing, Play, Two

  1961 In Life.

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• No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Your Side, People, Intelligence

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• Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Math, Two, Wish

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• Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

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  Struggle, Criticism, Doe

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• The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Practice, Two, Differences

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• If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Order, Credit, Violin

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• When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Taken, Civilization, Bridges

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• I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Music, Borders, Three

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• Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Baseball, Football, Yes You Can

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• Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Russia, America, Lessons

  Chicago Sun-Times, December 13, 1987.

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