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The artist expresses his feelings with due deference to the canons of art. Above all, he plays correctly. Without unduly repressing his individuality, he respects the composer's intentions by punctiliously obeying every hint or suggestion he finds concerning speed, force, touch, changes, contrasts, and so on. He delivers that composer's message truthfully. Not so the amateur. Long before he is able to play a piece correctly, he begins to twist and turn things in it to suit himself. Feeling is a great thing; so is the will to express it; but both are worthless without ability. Hence, before playing with feeling, it were well to make sure that everything in the piece is in the right place, in the right time, strength, touch, and so forth.Josef Hofmann
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  • 2003, National Federation of Music Clubs
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  • Anderson, Hans Christian
  • Anonymous,
  • Aristotle
  • Armstrong, Louis
  • Arrau, Claudio
  • Arriola, Pepito
  • Ashkenazy, Vladimir
  • Asow, Meuller von
  • Attenborough, Sir David
  • Auerbach, Berthold
  • Aumonier, Minnie
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  • Bach, J. S.
  • Bachaus, Wilhem
  • Bacon, Ernst
  • Baker-Jordan, Dr. Martha
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  • Beecher, Henry Ward
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Berlioz, Hector
  • Bernstein, Leonard
  • Bernstein, Seymour
  • Blacking, John
  • Blickenstaff, Marvin
  • Borge, Victor
  • Boulanger, Nadia
  • Brahms, Johannes
  • Brendel, Alfred
  • Britten, Benjamin
  • Browning, John
  • Browning, Robert
  • Brubeck, Dave
  • Bunt, Leslie
  • Busoni, Ferruccio
  • Busoni, Feruccio
  • Byron, Lord
    • C
  • Cage, John
  • Carlyle, Thomas
  • Carreno, Teresa
  • Casals, Pablo
  • Chopin, Frederic
  • Chronister, Richard
  • Clark, Frances
  • Clementi, Muzio
  • Confucius,
  • Congreve, William
  • Copland, Aaron
  • Crandall, Joanne
  • Crosby, Bing
    • D
  • Debussy, Claude
  • de Lamartine, Alphonse
  • de Pachmann, Vladimir
  • Dreher, Diane
  • Duncan, Lawrence
  • Dvorak, Antonin
    • E
  • Edwards, Jonathan
  • Einstein, Albert
  • Einstein, Alfred
  • Elliot (Mary Anne Evans), George
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
    • F
  • Fielden, Thomas
  • Flora van Grinsven, Mark Meerum Terwogt and
    • G
  • Gabrilowitsch, Ossip
  • Gach, Peter
  • Galamian, Ivan
  • Gaston, E. Thayer
  • Gershwin, George
  • Gieseking, Walter
  • Godowsky, Leopold
  • Grieg, Edvard
  • Grimm, Baron
    • H
  • Hall, Edward T.
  • Hambourg, Mark
  • Hammerstein II, Oscar
  • Hancock, Herbie
  • Harris, Robert
  • Harrison, Sidney
  • Hasse, Johann Adolf
  • Haydn, Franz Joseph
  • Heine, Heinrich
  • Heyman, Katherine Ruth
  • Hindemith, Paul
  • Hoffman, Josef
  • Hofmann, Josef
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  • Honegger, Arthur
  • Horowitz, Vladimir
  • Howe, Edgar Watson
  • Hugo, Victor
  • Hummel, Johann
  • Hutchenson, Earnst
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  • Huxley, Aldous Leonard
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    • J
  • James, Willam
  • James Hertel, Hamid Hekmat and
  • Jan Kochanski, Wladimir
  • Jessop, Craig
  • Joplin, Scott
    • K
  • Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
  • Kodaly, Zoltan
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  • Landowska, Wanda
  • Leginska, Ethel
  • Lehrer, Tom
  • Lennon, John
  • Leschetizky, Theodor
  • Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
  • Liszt, Franz
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  • Lucas, Elizabeth
  • Luther, Martin
    • M
  • Mahler, Gustav
  • Marsha Maslan, Joan Allekote and
  • Matthay, Tobias
  • MCartney, Paul, Sir
  • McCartney, Paul, Sir
  • Mendelssohn, Felix
  • Mikuli, Karol
  • Milton, John
  • Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Musicale, Revue
    • N
  • Neuhaus, Heinrich
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
    • O
  • Orff, Carl
  • Ortiz, PhD, John M.
    • P
  • Paderewski, Ignace
  • Paderewski, Ignace Jan
  • Pepys, Samuel
  • Petri, Egon
  • PhD, John M. Ortiz,
  • Plato,
  • Plato
  • Poole, William
  • Pope, Alexander
  • Proverb, Chinese
  • 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.
  • Rubenstein, Arthur
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  • Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), George
  • Scarantino, Barbara Anne
  • Schelling, Ernest
  • Schnabel, Arthur
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  • Schumann, Robert
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  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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  • Spaeth, Sigmund
  • Stern, Isaac
  • Stewart, R.J.
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  • Storr, Anthony
  • Strauss, Claude Levi
  • Strauss, Richard
  • Stravinsky, Igor
  • Sullivan, Arthur
  • Suzuki, Shinichi
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  • Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord
  • Thomas, Lewis
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Tolstoy, Leo
  • Twain, Mark
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  • van Beethoven, Ludwig
  • von Bulow, Hans
  • von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
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  • Wagner, Richard
  • Walker, Alan
  • Walsh, Peter
  • Ward, William Arthur
  • Watts, Andre
  • Welk, Lawrence
  • Wilde, Oscar
  • Williams, Ralph Vaughn
  • Williams, Tenessee
  • Wolf, Hugo
  • Wonder, Stevie
  • Wordsworth, William
    • What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.Igor Stravinsky
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