When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.

- Claudio Arrau

I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.

- Claudio Arrau

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

- Claudio Arrau

The body is a rock; the arms are snakes

- Claudio Arrau

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

- Claudio Arrau

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

- Claudio Arrau