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• You have to play Mozart like Chopin and Chopin like Mozart. -- Pablo Casals (to Vladimir Horowitz)
• I know two kinds of audience only--one coughing and one not coughing. -- Arthur Schnabel
• The notes I handle no better than many pianists, But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
  -- Arthur Schnabel...
• Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid perfection. -- Horowitz' Rule
• Sculptor: A poor unfortunate who makes faces and busts.
• Bender: I don't know why, but when I look down at their little faces it makes me want to puke.
  .. in a good way....
• You'll never make it--four-groups are out. -- Anonymous record company executive (to the Beatles, 1962) If you want to please only the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
  -- Arturo Toscaning (to Vladimir Horowitz)...
• Homer: Hey! Are you like one of those English guards who can't laugh or smile or anything?
  [makes noises and faces at him] [gets punched in the face] Ow!...
• Husband who fights with wife all day gets no piece at night.