Vladimir Ashkenazy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.
-- Vladimir Ashkenazy

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I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.
-- Vladimir Ashkenazy

#Believe #Glasses #Window

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I`m stronger.
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

Vladimir Ashkenazy famous quotes

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