Jascha Heifetz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
-- Jascha Heifetz

#Business #Height
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
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.
-- Jascha Heifetz

#Struggle #Criticism #Doe
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
If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.
-- Jascha Heifetz

#Order #Credit #Violin
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
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 #Color
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
Music has a lot in comÂmon with mathÂeÂmatÂics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to whatÂever you wish.
-- Jascha Heifetz

#Math #Two #Wish
He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - "just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917".
-- Jascha Heifetz

#Russia #America #Lessons
Practice like it means everything in the world to you. Â Perform like you don't give a damn.
-- Jascha Heifetz

#Mean #Practice #Giving

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