Artur SchnabelThinkers

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

A Biographer is like a contractor who builds roads: it's terribly messy, mud everywhere, and when you get done, people travel over the road at a fast clip.

Music's art resides not in the notes but in the pauses between the notes.

The Piano is an easy instrument for the pianist who just handles the notes; but the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.