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"Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in."

"Make your own luck, and then share it with others."

"It seemed Lady Luck hated me worse than usual."

"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."

"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."
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"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."

"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."

"The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together."

"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."

"Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end."

"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."
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