“A young music-teacher once said to him: ‘Mr. Schnabel, to which of the two schools of piano playing do you adhere, the one in which you play in time, or the one in which you play as you feel?’ And his immediate reply was ‘Why not feel in time?’”

Clifford Curzon recounted the story in his memorial tribute to Schnabel.  Not identical to the point I was trying to make, but close enough to make me wish I could take credit for it. I’ll just have to add it to the long list of things Schnabel did that are worth envying…