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“Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings”
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“I’ve found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
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“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.”
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“People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.”
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“To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings – it’s all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.”
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“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“There is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of the act and what it brings.”
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“At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I find it's been going on all the time and I'm in the third movement.”
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“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back”
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“Love life ND IT WILL LOVE YOU BACK. LOVE PEOPLE AND THEY WILL LOVE YOU BACK.”
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