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I’m nothing but a conduit. The music goes though my ears, my fingers... Composer is a god. Composer creates music. We’re performers. We’re just passing it on.

— Valentina Lisitsa

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Would-be musicians are starving themselves emotionally and intellectually just to be perfect.

If the question [about if there were only one composer in the world I could play] is purely ‘original’ works, no transcriptions, then Beethoven.

It’s only when you stop trying to find faults and start doing something constructive that you will survive … It’s just good for you as a human not to dwell on your disasters.

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