Best Quotes by Alfred Brendel (Top 3)

  1. The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
  2. 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.
  3. You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.