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Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

— Artur Schnabel

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Explaining why he never played encores.

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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.

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.

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.

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