Artur Schnabel - My life and music

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I know two kinds of audiences only—one coughing, and one not coughing.

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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

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I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.

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