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Quotes from My Life and Music — Artur Schnabel

1882–1951 Austria

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I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.

My Life and Music (1961)

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

My Life and Music (1961)

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.

My Life and Music (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Artur Schnabel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.