"I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much."

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Source : "My Life and Music" by Artur Schnabel, (p. 121), 1961.

Artur Schnabel

#Pieces Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Problem Quotes

“The force that has overcome Europe and destroyed entire states within days could cope with us, a handful of youngsters. It was an act of desperation . . . We aspired to only one thing: to sell our lives for the highest possible price.”
“I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay."”
“Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?”
“You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.”

Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium”, Hutchinson Radius
“There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly,”
“Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.”
“How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.”
“By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.”

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