Quoted in the Chicago Daily News, June 11, 1958.
Artur Schnabel: Frases en inglés
“I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.”
Fuente: My Life and Music (1961), p. 202
Often misquoted as "Great music is better than it can be performed".
Fuente: My Life and Music (1961), p. 121
“Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.”
Saturday Review of Literature September 29, 1951.
Explaining why he never played encores.