Artur Schnabel: Note

Artur Schnabel was Austrian pianist. Explore interesting quotes on note.

Artur Schnabel: 10 quotes0 likes

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.”

Quoted in the Chicago Daily News, June 11, 1958.

“Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.”

Source: My Life and Music (1961), p. 122

“Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.”

Saturday Review of Literature September 29, 1951.
Explaining why he never played encores.