Eugene Ormandy Quotes
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Start three bars before something.
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Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
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Conductor Eugene Ormandy introduces Warfield to the audience in an unintentionally humorous way: With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
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Intonation is important, especially when it is cold.
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We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.
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It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.
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Who is sitting in that empty chair?
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Think of your girlfriend or boyfriend or whomever you want to.
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I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.
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Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.
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He was listening so I don't remember.
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Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.
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Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
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That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.
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That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
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Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.
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Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.
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It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.
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Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.
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More basses, because you are so far away.
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If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.
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Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.
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It's hot as hell as can be.
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There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.