Anton Rubinstein Quotes

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Anton Rubinstein

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• Pianist
• Futurist

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Wish
  • Myself
  • Child

• Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Business
  • You
  • Politics

• I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Chaos
  • Well
  • Dishwasher

• In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

  Gail Devers
  • Broken
  • Feet
  • February

• The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Free
  • Chinese
  • New

• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Life
  • War
  • Politics

• ...the prophet of harmless solace in a harsh world....

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World

• If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Soul

• When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Light
  • Dark

• Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

  

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

• If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

  

  Amanda Burton
  • Option

• I understand and accept that for the people of Munich, only the treble will do.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • People

• Light is one of the basic areas that will give you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional lighting to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming intelligent with the transition from analogue to digital.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Light
  • Moving
  • Revolution

• Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!

  

  Jeff Garlin
  • Parents
  • Chill

• July is high burglary season because so many people leave town. To help avoid making that obvious, suspend your newspaper subscription and have your mail held. Another clear indication is if all your lights are off for an extended period. To fix that, you can buy a timer for about $30.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • People
  • Help
  • High

• What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

  

  Alex Karpovsky
  • Character
  • Authenticity

• When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.

  

  Eric Partridge
  • Hands
  • Regard
  • Pianist

• To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Composer
  • Somebody
  • Redundant

• Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Men
  • Political
  • Party

• Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.

  

  Georges Bidault
  • Dog
  • Anarchy
  • Beggar

• I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Hate
  • Husband
  • Kitchen

• Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

  

  Anton Rubinstein
  • Composer
  • Pianist
  • Futurist