“Serkin told me a story once about a monk. He was playing in Japan, I believe, and after a couple of hours of practicing somewhere in a monastery that happened to have a piano, he suddenly became aware that somebody was there. It was a monk, who told him that he had been observing for two hours and said, ‘I think I recognize what you do; it seems to be very much like what we do.'”
Richard Goode (quoted in Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber, Rudolf Serkin: A Life)
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