George Szell Quotes
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
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I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
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My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.
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How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?
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Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
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Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
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Who're you supposed to be, Creflo Dollar's Mini-Me?
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My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
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One rose is enough for the dawn.
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Anything that I've put my name to and my face to and put my time into, is something that I'm clearly passionate about, or I wouldn't be there.
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Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.
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Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.
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There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
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I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.
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A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
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I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.
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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
