Van Cliburn quotes
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“The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.”
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“The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.”
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“An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.”
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“Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.”
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“If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is”
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“But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.”
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“I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.”
-- Van CliburnSource : "Cold War, Hot Pianist. Now Add 50 Years" by Anthony Tommasini, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 2008.
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“I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.”
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“Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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