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.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
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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.

  

  Kate Bush
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• My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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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?

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Ends
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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.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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• Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

  

  Arthur Frederick Saunders
  • Light
  • Effect
  • Nonsense

• Who're you supposed to be, Creflo Dollar's Mini-Me?

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Supposed

• 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.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Littles

• One rose is enough for the dawn.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Rose
  • Dawn

• 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.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Name
  • Passionate

• 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.

  

  Eva Paterson
  • Silence
  • Race
  • Afraid

• 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.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Children
  • Home
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Cares

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Proud
  • Excited
  • Individuals

• Long after the actual event has passed, the brain may keep sending signals to the body to escape a threat that no longer exists.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Escape
  • Event
  • Signals

• We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • Model
  • Following

• I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

  

  Cara Santana
  • Trying
  • Risk
  • Better

• Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

  

  George Szell
  • Orchestra
  • Signals
  • Conductors