Arthur Rubinstein

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

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.

Arthur Rubinstein

Even when I’m sick and depressed, I love life.

Arthur Rubinstein

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Arthur Rubinstein

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.

Arthur Rubinstein

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

Arthur Rubinstein

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.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Arthur Rubinstein

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar – live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don’t be afraid. Marry her! Live!

Arthur Rubinstein

When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.

Arthur Rubinstein