I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial. Vladimir Horowitz More Quotes by Vladimir Horowitz More Quotes From Vladimir Horowitz 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. Vladimir Horowitz parents know you music I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house? Vladimir Horowitz loved you singing voice 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 playing right piano heart 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 someone you music speak 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 behind down music way 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 try think believe way I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and because it is always different, it is always new. Vladimir Horowitz new will always play 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 best thought music today Life is very busy now. I find that in today's cities, the public is very tired after working the whole day. When concerts start at eight o'clock, the wife pushes the husband to go to the concert, where some promptly fall asleep! Vladimir Horowitz day wife today life 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 your day good practice Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation. Vladimir Horowitz king feel boss situation The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots. Vladimir Horowitz i-am never music bible
