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The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots. - Vladimir Horowitz
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Behind the notes, something different is told, and that's what the interpreter must find out. He may sit down and play one passage one way and then perhaps exaggerate the next, but, in any event, he must do something with the music. The worst thing is not to do anything. - Vladimir Horowitz
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For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and not one must stick out. Not too much intellect because it can become scholastic. Not too much heart because it can become schmaltz. Not too much technique because you become a mechanic. - Vladimir Horowitz
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If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. - Vladimir Horowitz
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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. - Vladimir Horowitz
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Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues, but I had all of 'Gotterdammerung' in my fingers. - Vladimir Horowitz
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I tried playing for the public, and I selected music that I thought would be pleasing to them. Times are different now. Today, I play the music I want, and I just try to do my best. - Vladimir Horowitz
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I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house? - Vladimir Horowitz
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To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do. I don't adhere to any methods, because I simply don't believe in them. I think each pianist must ultimately carve his own way, technically and stylistically. - Vladimir Horowitz
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I studied with Felix Blumenfeld, who had studied piano with Anton Rubinstein and composition with Tchaikovsky. Felix, my professor, was the right hand of Anton Rubinstein. Blumenfeld knew his playing by heart, from every angle. - Vladimir Horowitz
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You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else. - Vladimir Horowitz
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Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself. - Vladimir Horowitz
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As far as practicing is concerned, I usually try to do one to two hours a day. It isn't good to practice too much, or your playing becomes too mechanical. - Vladimir Horowitz
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Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don't take risk, you are boring. - Vladimir Horowitz
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My face is my passport. - Vladimir Horowitz
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My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. - Vladimir Horowitz
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Perfection itself is imperfection. - Vladimir Horowitz
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I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them. - Vladimir Horowitz
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