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Quotes by Pianist

"Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined."

"Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined."

Claude Arrau, Chilean Pianist

Music, Expression, Meaning, Nothing

43

"An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted."

"An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted."

Claude Arrau, Chilean Pianist

29

"The dull and stupid have a much easier time of it."

"The dull and stupid have a much easier time of it."

William Kapell, American Pianist

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