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I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.


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Competitions are for horses, not artists.



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It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.



With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.



His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.



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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.





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I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30." And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than in your twenties." I didn't believe her, but I have played better in my thirties.

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