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"Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith." Psalms 115:1Quotes for Arts | Music• I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. Debussy• "Now let me describe the man to you. First, he does not play at all in the style you and I strive for. And just as I did not judge him on that basis, I imagine that when you hear him, you too will be compelled to ignore all matters of principle, and probably will end up doing just as I did. For your principles would not be the proper standard to apply. What he plays is expression in the older sense of the word, nothing else; but such power of expression I have never heard before. You will disagree with his tempis as much as I did. You will also note that he often seems to give primacy to sharp contrasts at the expense of form, the latter appearing to get lost. I say appearing to; for then, in its own way, his music surprisingly regains its form, makes sense, establishes its own boundaries. The sound he brings out of the piano is unheard of, or at least I have never heard anything like it . He himself seems not to know how he produces these novel and quite incredible sounds - although he appears to be a man of intelligence and not just some flaccid dreamer. And such fullness of tone, achieved without ever becoming rough, I have never before encountered. For me, and probably for you too, it's really too much fullness, but as a whole it displays incredible novelty and persuasiveness....Technique: it is amazing what he plays and how he plays it. One never senses that it is difficult, that it is technique - no, it is simply a power of the will, capable of soaring over all imaginable difficulties in the realization of an idea. - You see, I'm waxing almost poetic." Schoenberg on Nyíregyházi• "The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt—they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt." - Rachmaninov•"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." - Johann Sebastian Bach•"I am sure the Institute would not approve, for, naturally it regards the path which it ordains as the only right one. But there is no help for it! I am too enamored of my freedom, too fond of my own ideas." Achille-Claude Debussy(1862-1918), June 1885• "... for the human audience." - Anonymous• "If you can (and you can), conserve this so free and creative approach to music.The results are already so good.Sincerely, a competition commission will cutoff you immediately, but surely in the field of art (for example on a stage, with a real public to conquer and convince) you can (continue to) win." - Sandro Bisotti• "I am famous, but I am not well known.- Perfection itself is imperfection.- It's better to make your own mistakes than to copy someone else's.- My future is in my past and my past is in my present. I must now make the present my future.- When I am on the stage, I'm a king. No one can interfer with me because I have something to do, and it has to be the best which is within me.- I'm a general. My soldiers are the keys, and I have to command them.- My face is my passport.- The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know."Vladimir Horowitz• But expression for him was all. "If I don't feel for the music," he said, "I don't play it."(Lazar Berman), The Times Online, Feb 10 2005• "A general assertion is that a real artist needs to be very self-confident. I would claim the opposite: Only by casting doubts on your work till the point of dark despair leads to success!" Elena Kuschnerova• "I do have a formula...but it's complex and goes into alchemical processes...The 1st step is to never play a phrase without knowing precisely what feelings it describes.Paderewski has this principle in his sleep!" Smithsherman• "I have no style, because I change each time. You know [when] I go in the morning, I don't call it 'practice', I "rehearse". Each day I play differently. Today I play differently from yesterday. So I don't have my own style. The most important thing that I told in the conference, was that, what I want to make from piano mostly, is not a percussive instrument, but [a] singing instrument! The piano has to sing as much as it can." Vladimir Horowitz, London• "Music cannot be planned/formulated. Music is when you sit down, and when you play it" Abel Ong