Zdroj: [Říha, Vladimír, Alfred Brendel, Hudební rozhledy, 2014, 7, 34]
Alfred Brendel citáty a výroky
„Busoniho klavírní projev znamená vítězství reflexe nad bravurou.“
Zdroj: [Portréty velkých klavíristů 20. století VII., Hudební rozhledy, 2017, 1, 42]
Alfred Brendel: Citáty anglicky
As cited in: Ruth Hanna Sachs, D. E. Heap, Joyce Light (2005). White Rose History, Volume II (Academic Version). p. 366
“The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.”
Cited in: Karen Offord. Dare to Dream: Your Journey of a Lifetime, 2014, p. 115.
As cited in: Nicky Losseff, Jennifer Ruth Doctor (2007), Silence, Music, Silent Music, p. 170
Alfred Brendel (1976), as cited in: Benny Shanon (2013). The Representational and the Presentational. p. 380.
Studs Terkel (2006). And They All Sang: The Great Musicians of the 20th Century Talk about Their Music. p. 287
“You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.”
Alfred Brendel, quoted in: " The Music of Ligeti – May 20, 2006 http://www.aventa.ca/the-music-of-ligeti-may-20-2006/," at aventa.ca, 2006.
quoted in Alan Rusbridger, "Music, Sense and Nonsense by Alfred Brendel review – a great pianist’s thoughts on his art", The Guardian, 24 September 2015