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Conductor Inspirational Quotes (3067)

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There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
Leonard Slatkin
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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Virgil Thomson
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You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.
Robert Schumann
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The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.
Bill Haley
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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
John Coltrane
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When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.
Louis Armstrong
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
Walter Damrosch
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So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
Jeffrey Tate
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It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
Sun Ra
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I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
Louis Armstrong
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My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
Doc Severinsen
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Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.
Nadia Boulanger
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The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
Henri Rabaud
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If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.
Kurt Masur
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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
Robert Schumann
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A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
Alwin Nikolais
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Short people got no reason to live.
Randy Newman
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Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
Herbie Hancock
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I hold death in my pouch, I cannot die.
Fela Kuti
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The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
Artie Shaw
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Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
John Philip Sousa
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I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.
McCoy Tyner
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
Barry White
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