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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Managing to jump from the triple kicker with such a severe injury, I gained much confidence at that time and I promised to train harder while back in China and try to taste a medal four years later.
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A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
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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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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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A city one loves exists at no matter what distance, and its symphony is sometimes heard more clearly when one is away, as the music of an orchestra is more lucid to an audience that it sounds to the performers on the stage.
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You would think that I understood how wrong this was straight away and I didn’t. Musicians are crazy ambitious about getting their craft out there. And that’s why I think there’s so much shame about these kind of situations: Am I that stupid? What is wrong with me? Why have I compartmentalised all of this just for my career? That’s madness.
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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
