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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. "
Success
Jealous
Happy
" I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic. "
I Am
Lighting
Like
" I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things. "
I Am
Beautiful
Half
" 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. "
Happy
Health
Work
" I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played. "
Five
First
Everyone
" 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. "
Government
People
Off
" I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt. "
Two
Nothing
Speeds
" I'm an un-healable positive optimist. "
Optimist
Positive
" It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come. "
Come
Long
Audience
" 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. "
People
Fun
Have Fun
" 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. "
Sound
Real
Music
" It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze. "
Alone
Personality
Made
" I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life. "
Loved
Cake
Sweet
" 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. "
Been
Busy
Stones
" I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. "
Family
Black
Sheep
" Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. "
His
Music
Everybody
" Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love. "
Work
Life
Love
" Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together. "
House
Butterfly
People
" The classical music world is so snobbish. "
World
Classical Music
Music
" 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. "
Sad
Me
Life
" 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. "
Humor
Me
My Life
" We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life. "
Decisions
Hearts
Life
" 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. "
Something
Audience
Concerts
" 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. "
Son
Me
Life
" 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. "
Music
Beautiful
Blue
" You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between. "
Go
Concert
You
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