Home
Authors
Topics
Quote of the Day
Home
Authors
Topics
Quote of the Day
Home
Authors
Topics
Quote of the Day
Top 100 Quotes
Professions
Nationalities
Quotes by Conductors
Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.
John Powell
❝Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.❞
Sarah Caldwell
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things to move from an anarchic individualistic state to a regulated perfectly concious one which alone insures vitality and durability.
Igor Stravinsky
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.
George Szell
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
Andre Previn
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..
Pablo Casals
Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa
John Powell
My idea of success has little to do with fame. I just wanted to know if I could play with the best musicians in the business.
Artie Kane
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
John Powell
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
Igor Stravinsky