Best Quotes by Arthur Rubinstein (Top 10)

  1. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
  2. Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
  3. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
  4. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
  5. I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.
  6. At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.
  7. To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
  8. People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.
  9. I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
  10. Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

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