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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lived
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Schubert, Franck, and Liszt were all Roman Catholics who questioned or doubted or lived in different ways, and religion was certainly part of all their lives.
- Difficulties
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It's very hard to come up with ideal situations... With different moods and the difficulties of traveling around, I often play my best under the worst conditions.
- New
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Debussy is one of the few composers who actually created a new sound on the piano - or perhaps we should say a new smell, so perfumed are the vibrations which emanate from the instrument.
- Hands
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No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration.
- Chopin
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They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory.
- My Life
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I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.
- Living
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I'd never thought about living in London until about 1999.
- New
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I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.
- Appointments
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If you are not living in the same area when you are looking for property, it is a nightmare because you come down for a day or two, have appointments to see places, and have to be able to make instant decisions before flying off to St. Louis or somewhere.
- Music
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I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.
- Music
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Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my life would feel as if it had a big hole if I took those away.
- Faith
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I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing.
- Jockey
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I wanted to be a disc jockey.
- Like
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I like the extras in life. Concentrating on serious things doesn't mean you can't also enjoy the lighter ones.
- Heart
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There are many doors to the heart.
- Me
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I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel that a composer is wounded, like all of us.
- Commercialism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer.
- Nov 07, 2020
Traveling the road can be quite tiresome.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you arrive at a concert ready to play your piece, that's not nearly good enough. You must have your music ready to the point where you can play it on a short rehearsal, after a long plane flight, on a strange piano, having had an unpleasant lunch, in an unfriendly atmosphere. You have to be so over-prepared that you can cope with anything.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once or twice, I've taken the Gideon Bible out of the drawer, opened it at random, and found myself stuck in the middle of a genealogical list. And that's when I thought: why not cherry-pick the best bits, passages that people can actually use?
- Giving Up
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