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Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.
Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together.
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.
The classical music world is so snobbish.
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.
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.
We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily 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.
When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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.
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.
You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.
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Andre Rieu
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01 October, 1949
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Netherlands
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