Alfred Brendel Quotes

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.