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I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.

Vladimir Horowitz

Perfection itself is imperfection.

Vladimir Horowitz

I studied with Felix Blumenfeld, who had studied piano with Anton Rubinstein and composition with Tchaikovsky. Felix, my professor, was the right hand of Anton Rubinstein. Blumenfeld knew his playing by heart, from every angle.

Vladimir Horowitz

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

Vladimir Horowitz

Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a little overboard. Anyway, my parents were pleased that I played for him.

Vladimir Horowitz

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

Vladimir Horowitz

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

Vladimir Horowitz

Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don't take risk, you are boring.

Vladimir Horowitz

Life is very busy now. I find that in today's cities, the public is very tired after working the whole day. When concerts start at eight o'clock, the wife pushes the husband to go to the concert, where some promptly fall asleep!

Vladimir Horowitz

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

Vladimir Horowitz

The most important thing is to make a percussive instrument a singing instrument. Teachers should stress this aspect in their instruction, but it seems that very few of them actually do.

Vladimir Horowitz

As far as practicing is concerned, I usually try to do one to two hours a day. It isn't good to practice too much, or your playing becomes too mechanical.

Vladimir Horowitz

My face is my passport.

Vladimir Horowitz

For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and not one must stick out. Not too much intellect because it can become scholastic. Not too much heart because it can become schmaltz. Not too much technique because you become a mechanic.

Vladimir Horowitz

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

Vladimir Horowitz

I tried playing for the public, and I selected music that I thought would be pleasing to them. Times are different now. Today, I play the music I want, and I just try to do my best.

Vladimir Horowitz