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Concertmaster Inspirational Quotes (41)

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I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies
Gustavo Dudamel
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Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.
John Corigliano
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I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.
Gustavo Dudamel
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It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.
Gustavo Dudamel
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Art is not only about angst.
John Corigliano
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Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.
Paul Hindemith
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I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.
Gustavo Dudamel
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.
Gustavo Dudamel
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I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.
Gustavo Dudamel
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I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
John Corigliano
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You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.
Gustavo Dudamel
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When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
Gustavo Dudamel
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Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.
Paul Hindemith
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My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.
Gustavo Dudamel
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My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?
Paul Hindemith
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A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.
Gustavo Dudamel
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I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.
Gustavo Dudamel
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.
Gustavo Dudamel
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In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Gustavo Dudamel
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