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• Vladimir Horowitz:

  I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and becau

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  I tried playing for the public, and I selected music that I thought would be pleasing to them. Time

• Vladimir Horowitz:

  Life is very busy now. I find that in today's cities, the public is very tired after working the wh

• Vladimir Horowitz:

  As far as practicing is concerned, I usually try to do one to two hours a day. It isn't good to pra

• Vladimir Horowitz:

  Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.

• Vladimir Horowitz:

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

• Vladimir Horowitz:

  For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to

• Vladimir Horowitz:

  Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mista

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  A book is the only immortality.

• Rufus Choate:

  Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate lo