Piano Music Csaba Király PIANO MUSIC PERFORMANCES Recorded in the Concert Hall, Fukushima (Japan) and in the Studio of Hungaroton, Budapest (Hungary)
                                  He who sings scares away his woes. - Cervantes                 Music was my refuge.  I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.  - Maya Angelou                 Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. - Benjamin Disraeli                 Music is what feelings sound like. - Author Unknown                 There's music in the sighing of a reed;                 There's music in the gushing of a rill;                 There's music in all things, if men had ears;                 Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. - Lord Byron                 Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues.  The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg:  I have it in my pocket. - Henri Rabaud                 Music is the poetry of the air. - Richter                 If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music.  It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.  - Sydney Smith                 There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. -W illiam P. Merrill                 If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. - Doménico Cieri Estrada                 Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. - Henry David Thoreau                 Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven                 I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours.  But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places.  Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.  - H.A. Overstreet                 My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.  - Edward Elgar                 Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! - Oliver Wendell Holmes                 Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.  If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.  - Charlie Parker                 Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.  - William F. Buckley, Jr.                 Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.  - Henry Ward Beecher                 Play the music, not the instrument.  - Author Unknown                 Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.  - Ludwig van Beethoven                 Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.  - Robert Fripp                 [An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.  - John Chesson                 Music's the medicine of the mind.  - John A. Logan                 You are the music while the music lasts.  - T.S. Eliot                 Music is the universal language of mankind.  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer                 Music rots when it gets too far from the dance.  Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.  - Ezra Pound                 He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.  - Robert Browning                 You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.  - Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket                 The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.  - Oliver Herford                 What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way.  Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.  - Meyer Davis, about his orchestra                 Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.  - Victor Hugo                 ...where music dwells lingering - and wandering on as loth to die... - William Wordsworth, "Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge"                 Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.  - Buffy Sainte-Marie                 Music is an outburst of the soul.  - Frederick Delius                 Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.  - Oscar Wilde                 In music the passions enjoy themselves.  - Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886                 Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present.  It's not much fun to look forward to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs you and places you in the moment.  - Terri Guillemets                 Music is what life sounds like.  - Eric Olson                 If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term:  organization of sound.  - John Cage                 Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.  - Arnold Bennett Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.  - Robert G. Ingersoll                 Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.  - Alphonse de Lamartine                 There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased, With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear, Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. - William Cowper                 When words leave off, music begins.  - Heinrich Heine                 Truly to sing, that is a different breath.  - Rainer Maria Rilke                 Music is the shorthand of emotion.  - Leo Tolstoy                 There is no truer truth obtainable                 By Man than comes of music. - Robert Browning                 Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living.  But serious music was never meant to be soporific.  - Aaron Copland                 What passion cannot music raise and quell!  - John Dryden                 The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.  - Leonard Bernstein                 Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.  - Paul Simon                 Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory - Percy Bysshe Shelley                 A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.  - Benny Green                 The notes I handle no better than many pianists.  But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!  - Artur Schnabel                 The pause is as important as the note.  - Truman Fisher                 The city is built                 To music, therefore never built at all, and therefore built forever. - Alfred Lord Tennyson                 Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.  - Lawrence Duncan                 Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.  - Confucius                 Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country.  - Edmund G. Brown                 Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with unsuspected eloquence can move, and manage all the man with secret art. - Joseph Addison                 My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front.  If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.  - Liberace                 Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. - Alfred Lord Tennyson                 Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.  - Ronald Reagan                 The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention:  the need for rhythm in life? the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. - Richard Baker                 Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.  - Leigh Hunt                 Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.  - Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923                 Country music is three chords and the truth.  - Harlan Howard                 An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like.  From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.  - Kit Coleman, Kit Coleman: Queen of Hearts                 I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson                 Are we not formed, as notes of music are, for one another, though dissimilar? - Percy Bysshe Shelley                 Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.  - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton                 A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?  - Charles Ives                 The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously.  Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.  - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz                 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.  - Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays                 Music is love in search of a word.  - Sidney Lanier                 It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.  - Victor de LaPrade                 Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.  - Jean Paul Richter                 Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.  - William Green                 If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.  - Simon Rattle                 Bach opens a vista to the universe.  After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.  - Helmut Walcha                 I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.  - Lily Tomlin                
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