Quotes of: Davis Keyword

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

Jeffrey Tate

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

Jeffrey Tate

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

Jeffrey Tate

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

Daniel Barenboim

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

Daniel Barenboim

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

Kevin Eubanks

As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.

Zubin Mehta

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

Zubin Mehta

Tony: So your earlier offer still stands? Sabrina Davis: What should I say? Whatever you like.

Dazed and Confused

Jean: Everything you touch turns to shit, you're like king Midas's idiot brother.

Inside Llewyn Davis

Isaac Davis: I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion.

Manhattan

Isaac Davis: I can't express anger. That's one of the problems I have. I grow a tumor instead.

Manhattan

Isaac Davis: No, I didn't read the piece on China's faceless masses, I was, I was checking out the lingerie ads.

Manhattan

Isaac Davis: Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist"

Manhattan

Isaac Davis: Hit the lights. Go ahead, turn 'em out again. We'll trade fours.

Manhattan

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

Jack Kevorkian

It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.

John Zorn

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

Mark Hoppus

Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

Bobby McFerrin

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

Charles Hazlewood

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

Chuck Mangione