Quotes of: Stravinsky Keyword

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

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

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

Kurt Masur

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

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

Casey Nicholaw

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.

Casey Nicholaw

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Itzhak Perlman

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

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

Jeffrey Tate

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

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

Chuck Mangione

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Coco Chanel