Quotes of: Mahler Keyword

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

Kurt Masur

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

Charles Hazlewood

One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.

Neville Marriner

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Thomas Beecham

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Thomas Beecham

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

Kurt Masur

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 spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.

Charles Hazlewood

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

Zubin Mehta

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

Neville Marriner

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

Jessye Norman

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Zubin Mehta

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

Eugene Ormandy

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Eugene Ormandy

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

Charles Hazlewood

I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.

Charles Hazlewood

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

Chuck Mangione

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

Chuck Mangione

The practice of giving an A transports your relationships from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility... This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.

Benjamin Zander

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