Van Cliburn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
-- Van Cliburn

#Art #Drama #Piano
The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.
-- Van Cliburn

#Inspirational #Bricks #Life Is
An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
-- Van Cliburn

#Music #Artist #Might
Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
-- Van Cliburn

#Love #Dream #Heart
If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is
-- Van Cliburn

#Inspiration #Anchors #World
But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.
-- Van Cliburn

#Strong #Forever #May
I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
-- Van Cliburn
I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.
-- Van Cliburn

#Texas #Proud #Matter
Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.
-- Van Cliburn

#People #Competition #Pieces

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Van Cliburn famous quotes

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