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Conductor Inspirational Quotes (3067)

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When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.
Howard Shore
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I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.
Sun Ra
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
Herbie Hancock
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I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.
Werner Klemperer
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...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.
John Coltrane
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
Giuseppe Verdi
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It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
Richard Wagner
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I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
Peter Maxwell Davies
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A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
David Ogden Stiers
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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
Duke Ellington
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I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.
Richard Lewis
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Always look out for the little notes˘like minorities.
William Boughton
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Don't impose yourself until you really know the work throroughly.
William Boughton
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You can't expect the audience to feel anything if you don't.
William Boughton
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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Colin Davis
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Life has become a state of sensory overload.
Joseph Curiale
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What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
Miles Davis
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
Daniel Barenboim
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I was able to turn to classical music many people, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.
Aleksey Igudesman
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I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
Aleksey Igudesman
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For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.
Aleksey Igudesman
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A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.
Glenn Miller
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The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.
Rudy Vallee
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