Sarah Caldwell Quotes
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Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
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Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.
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Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
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If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
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Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
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Tanglewood summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was a place where gods strode the earth.
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The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.
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Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
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We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.
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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
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The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.