When the lights were dimmed and complete silence fell on the house, I felt that special secret current between the public and me, the current which inspires me when I play.  My success, on that night, was one of the most important ones of my career.

- page 313, My Young Years, by Arthur Rubinstein (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973).

["Secret Current" cross-references (you got here from one of them)]:

Guitar for the Practising Musician (May/89)
Acoustic Guitar (Nov-Dec/92)