Charles Munch Quotes
The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.
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I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.
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The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
