7 July 2007

Artur Schnabel quote

In four minutes [of recording] you play perhaps 2,000 notes; in every take there are two notes wrong; then you make ten takes and choose the one with 20 wrong notes. It’s like being married to death.
[ posted by sstrader on 7 July 2007 at 12:20:19 PM in Music ]
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