Best quotes by Vladimir Horowitz on Music

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• ‟ The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots.

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• ‟ It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then, even a short piece by Brahms or Chopin can be played with much more understanding.

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a little overboard. Anyway, my parents were pleased that I played for him.

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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