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My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
Vladimir Horowitz
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
Vladimir Horowitz
My face is my passport.
Vladimir Horowitz
I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.
Vladimir Horowitz
I was impressed mostly by Gieseking [Horowitz said in 1987]. He had a finished style, played with elegance, and had a fine musical mind.
Vladimir Horowitz
I heard Edwin Fischer, who did not mean much to me. I heard another pianist in Berlin who had a big success and I thought he was awful - Mischa Levitzki. Just fingers, and you cannot listen only to fingers. There is a difference between artist and artisan. Levitzki was an artisan. But Ignaz Friedman, who I admired, was a great artist. He had wonderful fingers and a very personal, individual way of playing, even if some of his ideas were very strange to me. He had no hesitation touching up the music. I got annoyed with him at one concert when he changed the basses in Chopin's F minor Ballade. I didn't like that. For some reason he was happier making records than he was on the stage.
Vladimir Horowitz
Of the Russian pianists I like only one, Richter. Gilels did some things well, but I did not like his mannerisms, the way he moved around while he was playing.
Vladimir Horowitz
Interesting pianist, but I think he is just a little bit meshuga.
Vladimir Horowitz
If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Vladimir Horowitz
Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
Vladimir Horowitz
Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.
Vladimir Horowitz