MUSICIAN QUOTES - your favorite words of wisdom?

[michel dvorsky]

Pogorelich: "NYRrrrtghghghhgg1!!!"
Kissin: "It wuth nevah....virthuothity for the thaaake of virtuothity"
Hamelin: "I have always had a...hypercapacity for music"
Lang Lang on Prokofiev 3: "It's like computer game"
Lang Lang on his interpetative style: "I play piano like multimedia website"
Lang Lang: "Today I will play a special version...[of Chopin Black Key Etude] with [an] ORANGE"
Brahms: "I AM DOCTOR BRAHMS....JOHANNES BRAHMS"
Lupu: "No."

[weissenberg2]

Dvorsky: "that Godowsky's Fledermaus is one of the most fantastic, resourceful and complicated stunts ever written for the piano."

[imbetter]

(My signature) "My advice to young musicians: Quit music! There is no choice. It has to be a calling, and even if it is and you think there's a choice, there is no choice"-Vladimir Feltsman


PS: Isn't Michel Dvorsky Joseph Hofmann's pen name?

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Isn't Michel Dvorsky Joseph Hofmann's pen name?

Yes.

"I am feeneeshed, thank you" - Cziffra
"carrion beetles of the mind" - Cziffra on critics
"Is that a dog barking?" - Chopin on uncontrolled loud notes
"Keep your hand still, Fraulein, don't make omelette" - Liszt on surplus hand movement

[mikey6]

Lupu: "No."

What's the story behind this?

[michel dvorsky]

What's the story behind this?

Hat tip, Koji.

[classicalmusicfan]

"Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us."

"A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the cadence."

"The best revenge is a good life."

All came from Anonymous.

[tanman]

langlang on prok 3: "like two hands fighting"
 

[minor9th]

Sorabji on some critic's remarks: "An orgy of imbecility."

[mikey6]

Hat tip, Koji.

oh wow! That was painful! poor interviewer!  Apparently all he does all day is play chess and listen to orchestral music.  No teaching or masterclasses (dammit!).  And I suppose practises a bit too.

[braintist]

"There you go again, mixing salad again" Liszt
"Wash your dirty linen at home" Liszt
"Do not chop beefsteak for us" Liszt

Liszt is one heck of a teacher >.>

[tds]

"i wet my pants" beethoven
"i need to go to the loo" elgar
"where are my glasses?" schubert
"i love you" chopin
"i miss you" brahms
"hey, where are you going" britten
"damn, i am so full" mussorgsky

[cai hong]

"Yes, I love commercials..." -RG

your words shall be remembered, my teacher! XD

[kay3087]

"What I would give to have a left hand like that!" — Horowitz on Erroll Garner

[birba]

oh wow! That was painful! poor interviewer!  Apparently all he does all day is play chess and listen to orchestral music.  No teaching or masterclasses (dammit!).  And I suppose practises a bit too.

I don't believe a word of it.(the interview)

[mikebechstein]

(Paraphrases as I can't find the quotes)

"Most people who can play too fast, do."

And, on hearing some students practising too fast - "Listen to them, compounding all their mistakes."

Read it recentle but I can't remember who said it.

[loonbohol]

Loonbohol: "the novice pianist makes no mistakes and not muched praised.
the Virtuoso pianist makes mistakes yet they are praised."

-refers that the pianist really played it originally and the audio is not copied from another virtuoso pianist.