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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.Vladimir Horowitz
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  • 2003, National Federation of Music Clubs
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  • Adams, Douglas
  • Adams, John
  • Aiken, Conrad
  • Anderson, Bryce W.
  • Anderson, Hans Christian
  • Andrews, Julie
  • Anonymous,
  • Anonymous
  • Aristotle
  • Armstrong, Louis
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    • B
  • Bach, J. S.
  • Bachaus, Wilhem
  • Bacon, Ernst
  • Baker-Jordan, Dr. Martha
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  • Beecher, Henry Ward
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  • Berlioz, Hector
  • Bernstein, Leonard
  • Bernstein, Seymour
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  • Blacking, John
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  • Boulanger, Nadia
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  • Brendel, Alfred
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  • Bulwer Lytton, Edward
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  • Busoni, Ferruccio
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  • Byron, Lord
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  • Cage, John
  • Carlyle, Thomas
  • Carreno, Teresa
  • Casals, Pablo
  • Chopin, Frederic
  • Chronister, Richard
  • Clark, Frances
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  • Confucius,
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  • Congreve, William
  • Copland, Aaron
  • Crandall, Joanne
  • Crosby, Bing
    • D
  • Debussy, Claude
  • de Lamartine, Alphonse
  • de Pachmann, Vladimir
  • Depp, Johnny
  • Doherty, Pete
  • Dreher, Diane
  • Duncan, Lawrence
  • Dvorak, Antonin
    • E
  • Edwards, Jonathan
  • Einstein, Albert
  • Einstein, Alfred
  • Eliot, George
  • Eliot, Thomas
  • Ellington, Duke
  • Elliot (Mary Anne Evans), George
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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  • Fielden, Thomas
  • Flora van Grinsven, Mark Meerum Terwogt and
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  • Gach, Peter
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  • Gibran, Kahlil
  • Gieseking, Walter
  • Godowsky, Leopold
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  • Hall, Edward T.
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  • Hopkins, Gerard Manley
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  • Howe, Edgar Watson
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  • Longsfellow, Henry
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  • Manson, Marilyn
  • Marsha Maslan, Joan Allekote and
  • Matthay, Tobias
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  • Mikuli, Karol
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  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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  • Murakami, Haruki
  • Musicale, Revue
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  • Neuhaus, Heinrich
  • Newberry, David B.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
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  • Orff, Carl
  • Ortiz, PhD, John M.
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  • Paderewski, Ignace
  • Paderewski, Ignace Jan
  • Pepys, Samuel
  • Petri, Egon
  • PhD, John M. Ortiz,
  • Plato,
  • Plato
  • Poole, William
  • Pope, Alexander
  • Presley, Elvis
  • Proverb, Chinese
  • Pullman, Philip
  • Punam Anand, Morris Holbrook and
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  • Rachmaninoff, Sergei
  • Rachmaninov, Sergei
  • Randolph, David
  • Reagan, Ronald
  • Richter, Sviatoslav
  • Rieder, Ambrose
  • Rorem, Ned
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  • Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
  • Rowling, J.K.
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  • Saint-Saens, Camille
  • Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), George
  • Scarantino, Barbara Anne
  • Schelling, Ernest
  • Schnabel, Arthur
  • Schoenberg, Arnold
  • Schonberg, Harold C.
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  • Schumann, Clara
  • Schumann, Robert
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Shaw, George Bernard
  • Shelley, Percy
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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  • Simone, Nina
  • Sousa, John Philip
  • Spaeth, Sigmund
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  • Spinoza, Benedict
  • Springsteen, Bruce
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  • Stewart, R.J.
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  • Storr, Anthony
  • Strauss, Claude Levi
  • Strauss, Richard
  • Stravinsky, Igor
  • Sullivan, Arthur
  • Suzuki, Shinichi
  • Szell, George
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  • Taylor, James
  • Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord
  • Thomas, Lewis
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Tolstoy, Leo
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  • van Beethoven, Ludwig
  • Verlaine, Paul
  • von Bulow, Hans
  • von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
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  • Wadsworth, William
  • Wagner, Richard
  • Walker, Alan
  • Walsh, Peter
  • Ward, William Arthur
  • Watts, Andre
  • Welk, Lawrence
  • Whiteman, Paul
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  • Williams, Ralph Vaughn
  • Williams, Tenessee
  • Wolf, Hugo
  • Wonder, Stevie
  • Wordsworth, William
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  • Yeats, William Butler
    • Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Excerpt from: "To _____," in A Dictionary of Musical Quotations, Ian Crofton and Donald Fraser, eds.
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