"When a piece gets difficult, make faces."

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Source : Quoted in Oscar LevantTheUnimportance of BeingOscar (1968).

Artur Schnabel

#Pieces Quotes #Faces Quotes #Funny Music Quotes

“What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy â€” in Afghanistan and in Texas.”
“A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity.”
“The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”
“In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!”
“Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.”

Source : Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”
“The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.”
“There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.”
“This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.”

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