Georg Solti Quotes
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Think and grow rich.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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I've been very lucky.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
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You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
