Blechacz Rafal Quotes & Sayings

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. — Rafal Blechacz

As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience. — Rafal Blechacz

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love. — Rajneesh

I know this is a hard blow... But stay on the job, son. Do the next right thing. — S.D. Smith

I'm a failed newspaper man myself. — Ernie Harwell

My Wings are a thousand books. — Gill Robb Wilson

A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon. — Joe Abercrombie

When life events mimic shattered glass,
carefully locate the pieces then gently pick them up. — Gina Greenlee

My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist. — Rafal Blechacz

I usually need a lot of time to be completely alone with the particular piece, the composer, and the instrument. I also prefer a very quiet atmosphere, and I usually choose pieces that are very close to my personality, my heart. I think the audience can feel it. — Rafal Blechacz

By what route the infant Hansen found his way to the Jesuits, the file did not relate. Perhaps the mother converted. Those were dark years still, and if expediency required it, she may have swallowed her Protestant convictions to buy the boy a decent education. Give the Jesuits his soul, she may have reasoned, and they will give him a brain. Or perhaps she sensed in her son from early on the mercurial nature that later ruled his life, and she determined to subordinate him to a stronger religious discipline than was offered by the easy-going Protestants. If so, she was wise. — John Le Carre

And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one against everyone; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that may not be a help unto him, in preserving his life against his enemyes; It followeth, that in such a condition, every man has a Right to every thing; even to one anothers body. — Thomas Hobbes

I love Arthur Rubinstein, especially his live recordings. I think his Chopin Mazurkas, his interpretation of the Polonaises, and the Concertos of Chopin are just incredible. When I was a child, I wanted to play more and more Chopin because of his recordings. — Rafal Blechacz

It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach - my first love and fascination - Chopin, and Szymanowski. — Rafal Blechacz

There are so many people who are interested in classical music. Fortunately, I think many of them are quite young, so it's wonderful to present new programs to them. — Rafal Blechacz

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced. — Ray Dalio

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me. — Rafal Blechacz

I dreamt of playing in the big halls all over the world and it has always been my dream to play for people in many different countries. — Rafal Blechacz

I wanted to hurt in a way I understood. — Mark Soluka

Real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut. — Donna Tartt

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane. — Thomas Pynchon

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again. — Joseph Bruchac

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do. — Ted Cruz

BIBLE: Basic Information Before Leaving Earth — Jenny Shine