Arthur Rubinstein quotes Godowsky

In a BBC television interview in 1968, Bernard Levin asked Rubinstein if it helped for the audience to have a technical knowledge of the music they are hearing. He replied with a comment from "witty Godowsky".

On tour in Brazil early in 1920, Arthur Rubinstein had an attack of guilt over his inadequate practising. 'Once in Rio,' he told [Samuel] Chotzinoff, 'I ran into the great pianist Godowsky in the lobby of my hotel. "I'm coming to hear your tonight," Godowsky said, beaming. I blanched. "Please, please don't come," I implored. "It is impossible to fake in front of you."  Harvey Sachs, Rubinstein: a life, (1995), 192