Riccardo Muti Quotes

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

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• Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Faith
  • Loves
  • Leading

• I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Good
  • Piano
  • Teachers

• Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Nature
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• All for one, one for all, that is our device.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Device
  • One For All

• A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

  

  Helen Keller
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Simple

• I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.

  

  Rory Stewart
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Understanding

• ... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Practice
  • Pray

• A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Country
  • Art
  • Socialist

• Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Parliament
  • Crown
  • Sovereign Powers

• We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Credit

• My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I thought: yes, Lila is right, the beauty of things is a trick, the sky is the throne of fear; I'm alive, now, here, ten steps from the water, and it is not beautiful, it's terrifying; along with this beach, the sea, the swarm of animal forms, I am part of the universal terror.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Animal
  • Beauty
  • Beach

• Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Company
  • Anybody

• We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Young
  • Foolish
  • Arrogant

• I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

  

  Riccardo Muti
  • Arrogant
  • Spotlight