Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Van Cliburn

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 . Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right, discovered him playing at age three, mimicking one of her students and arranged for him to start taking lessons. Cliburn developed a rich, round tone and a singing-voice-like phrasing, having been taught from the start to sing each piece.

American - Musician | Born: July 12, 1934

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I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

Van Cliburn

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Van Cliburn

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

Van Cliburn

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

Van Cliburn

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Van Cliburn

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

Van Cliburn

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

Van Cliburn

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

Van Cliburn

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

Van Cliburn

But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

Van Cliburn

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Van Cliburn

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