Quotes by Alfred Brendel - Page 1

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Hands
Play
Three
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I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Mean
Piano
Want
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The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Effective Listening
I Hate You
Listening Ear
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A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Art
Breasts
Soul
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Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Remember
Silence
Silent
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Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Essence
Ingredients
Silence
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I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Desire
Fantastic
Needs
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You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Atmosphere
Character
Giving
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Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Art
Giving
Order
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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Masterpiece
Ought
Tradition
Belong
Composed
Performer
Piece
Telling
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If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Pieces
Should
Tradition
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I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing!
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
People
Thinking
Yesterday
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In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.
Alfred Brendel / Pianist
Despair
Moving
Yield
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