Quotes by Andre Rieu - Page 1

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
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The classical music world is so snobbish.
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Classical Music
Snobbish
World
Classical
Music World
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I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.
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Speed
Two
Speeds
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For me, I always like to get up bright and early.
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Bright
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Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
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Composed
Elite
Mozart
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Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.
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Changed
Changed My Life
I've Changed
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I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.
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Admire
Believe
Genius
I Believe
Time Believe I Believe
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I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.
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Firsts
Five
Violin
Aged
Assumed
Picked
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I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away.
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Fall
Long
Reading
Love Long Never
Asleep
Right Away
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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Home
Breakfast
Garden
Long
Love Home Long
Tour
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I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.
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Language
People
Soul
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I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
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Black
Black Sheep
Mother
Sheep
Understood
Family Mother Me
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You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.
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Classical
Concert
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It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
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Craze
Made
Personality
Waltz
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I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
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Cake
Children
Sweet
Fat
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It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.
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Interaction
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We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.
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Brain
Daily Life
Decision
Heart
Life Music Daily
Brains
Daily
Hearts
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I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
Lighting
Magic
Modern
Traditional
Use
Sets
Traditional Sense
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Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.
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Jealous
Critics
Facts
Musician
People
Success Me People
Attack
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I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.
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Home
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Coming Home
Half
Years
Most
Most Beautiful Beautiful World
Am
Around
Every
Coming
Most Beautiful
Travelling
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It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.
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Art
Play
Real
Waltz
Easiest
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Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together.
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Built
Butterfly
Ferrari
Designed
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The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.
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Humor
Important
Waltz
Way
World
Life World Me
Bringing
Express
Important Part
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I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.
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Heart
Secret
Thinking
Touch
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I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
Giving
Payroll
Records
Tickets
Unusual
Money Government Me
Sell
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When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
Concerts
Attended
Encore
Happening
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I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
Classical Music
Classical
Entertain
Have Fun
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Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
Circles
People
Play
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People don't come to my concerts because they know the program. They come because they love the atmosphere and because they know that when I offer them a program it will be a night they never forget.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
Atmosphere
Concerts
Never Forget
Night
Program
Love Night People
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The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.
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Sad
Uplifting
Audience
Both Sides
Giving
Sides
Waltz
Life Time Sad
Life Time Yourself
Both
Life Sad Time
Grab
Same Time
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I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
Busy
Musical
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Idol
Studies
Suddenly
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Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz.
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Blue
Emotion
Today
Waltz
Brings
Piece
Tune
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When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
Born
Changed
Cried
Cry
Essence
Grandchildren
Son
Years Ago
Life Me Day
All Day
Twin
Life Father Me
Linda
Pierre
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I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.
Andre Rieu / Violinist
Happy
Health
Believe
Ill
Mind
Satisfied
Itself
Head
Heals
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