Quotes from Andre Rieu

For me, I always like to get up bright and early.

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.

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

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.

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.

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.

Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together.

Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.

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.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

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.

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

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.

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.

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

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.

People don't come to my concerts because they know the program. They come because they love the atmosphere and because they know that when I offer them a program it will be a night they never forget.

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

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.

I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away.