Neeme Jarvi Quotes
I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.
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When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.
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We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.
Charles B. Rangel -
Well, fans always root for the underdog.
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I wanted to go where the people work hard, throw down, and really needed the party... Saginaw is all that and then some. I looked in those faces - and I knew, these people mean business.
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If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!
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You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
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I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.
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I worried too much when I was a kid.
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Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
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I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.
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When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.
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I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
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I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.
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Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message.
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I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.
