Quotes of: Bette-davis Keyword

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

Erich Leinsdorf

It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

Riccardo Muti

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Zubin Mehta

Michael Llewelyn Davies: It's a play! J.M. Barrie: It's not just *a* play, Michael. It's *the* play.

Finding Neverland

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

John Deacon

We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.

Chris Barber

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Cassandra Wilson

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

Itzhak Perlman

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

Miles Davis

Good memories are meant to stay in our hearts forever... -Geena L. Davis

Love

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Zubin Mehta

I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

Zubin Mehta

Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

Zubin Mehta

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

Leonard Slatkin

I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.

Sarah Caldwell

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Billie Joe Armstrong

With flowers the sex is up-front and x-rated.

Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Neville Marriner

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

Neville Marriner

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Philip Warren Anderson