Carnegie Quotes

• Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

  

  Sanford I. Weill
  • World
  • Building
  • Program

• I went to Carnegie Mellon.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Carnegie

• Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Because
  • Basically
  • Acoustic

• How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Practice
  • Get Away
  • Carnegie Hall

• Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Real
  • Carnegie
  • Grand Ole Opry

• He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.

  

  David Nasaw
  • People
  • Wanted
  • Educate

• Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.

  

  David Nasaw
  • Opportunity
  • Survival
  • Social

• Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played Radio City, and we've played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Dream
  • City
  • Born

• Now what's important is that they have an attitude. Everybody has a look, but not everybody has cultivated what their stage persona is. And so when you're dealing with actors, it just makes it more difficult, because you have to help them come up with one. You know, Johnny Depp has no Johnny Depp character when he's onstage. You haven't seen An Evening With Johnny Depp at Carnegie Hall.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • Important
  • Character
  • Attitude

• Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

  

  Ernest Thompson Seton
  • Together
  • Funny
  • Enough

• I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill.

  

  Karen Mason
  • Jazz
  • Pops
  • Halls

• Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.

  

  David Nasaw
  • Men
  • Fellows
  • Lunatic

• Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Book
  • Looks
  • Next