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 -
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.
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When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.
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As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.
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Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
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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.
