Arthur Rubinstein famous quotes

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Life #Happiness #People

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Love #Life #Positive Thinking

Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence, nature, God, or what I would call the power of creation seems to favor human beings who accept and love life unconditionally, and I am certainly one who does with all my heart.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Heart #Love Life #And Love

I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Blood #Practice #Play

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Music #Play #Piano

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Growth

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Love Life #People #I Love Life

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Beautiful #Brain #Blonde

At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Making Love #Risk #Different

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Paris #People #Cafes

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Life #Depressing #Sick

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Live Life #Journey #Miracle

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Spring #Symphony #Perfect

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Color #Miracle #House

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Father #Mistake #Heart

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Would Be #Want #Chains

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Light #Vegetables #Play

When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Play #Making Love

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Marriage #Used #Middle

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Passion #Expression #People

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Life #Accepting #Existence

I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Air #Secret #Special

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Inspirational Life #Acceptance #People

...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Wine #Dust #Color

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Beautiful #Wedding #Believe

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Good Friend #Games #Laughing

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Men #Practice #Rooms