Krystian Zimerman quotes

Krystian Zimerman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.”
-- Krystian Zimerman

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“My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.”
-- Krystian Zimerman

Source : "Steinways" by George Wright, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2003.

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“And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.”
“There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)”
“He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.”
“I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.”
“The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.”
“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”

Source : "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.
“Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.”
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.”
“Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.”
“Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...”

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