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Music Director Inspirational Quotes (370)

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Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.
Bradley Joseph
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Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.
Daniel Barenboim
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Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Julie Andrews
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I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of the flying cars.
Reggie Watts
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The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.
Bruno Walter
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
Daniel Barenboim
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We didn't want to do that. It would have been a beautiful moment in the movie but it would have brought the movie down. So Danny's vision was perfect I think when he wanted it to be driven at the same time having this new emotion about this boy coming as a hallucination or like a déjà vu and as the future kid.
A. R. Rahman
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Music is a language, a universal language.
Sun Ra
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
Zubin Mehta
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I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
Julie Andrews
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There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.
Reggie Watts
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It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.
Harold Prince
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Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
Harold Prince
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I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.
Susan Stroman
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You don't do any show to be celebrated. In fact, you don't do any show thinking what's going to happen in the end. You immerse yourself in a room full of talent and a room full of designers and you hope for the best.
Susan Stroman
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My husband knows me better than anyone.
Julie Andrews
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When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, What kind of opening do I want for this book?
Julie Andrews
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My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.
Susan Stroman
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When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.
Reggie Watts
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
Harold Prince
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You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.
Julie Andrews
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I suppose partially because of the success of the early movies and things like that, I began to realize, that children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them. I know that it's important to make them feel very valuable, not to talk down to them.
Julie Andrews
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Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
Georg Solti
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The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
Daniel Barenboim
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