Arthur Rubinstein Video

Dying of tuberculosis: The earth is suffocating.... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you, and remember this always, those of us with something urgent to say, we give everything.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.