44 Quotes by Arthur Rubinstein

I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.