Dudamel Conducting Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate? — Pittacus Lore

A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy. — Vinny Appice

You're the girl you take out to dinner. Get the good champagne. You pay her attention. Buy her some shit that softens her up and makes her happy. Then you hope all that sweet turns wild when you get her in bed. — Kristen Ashley

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real. — Gustavo Dudamel

Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You always stay true to your own principles. You always believe in your gift. God doesn't make mistakes when he presents someone with a gift like that. It's there for a reason. Tell the naysayers, those who reject you, to drop dead! Who cares? — James Lee Burke

There are always exceptions to every generalization.
[A Christian Epilogue] — John B. Cobb Jr.

Therein resides the fundamental systemic violence of capitalism, much more uncanny than direct pre-capitalist socio-ideological violence: its violence is no longer attributable to concrete individuals with their 'evil' intentions, but is purely 'objective,' systemic, anonymous
quite literally a conceptual violence, the violence of a Concept whose self-deployment rules and regulates social realty. — Slavoj Zizek

Heartbeat to heartbeat a little closer to the truth. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Almost there..." I said, like I was taking my child to Disneyland. — Holly Bourne

The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible. — Armin Van Buuren

Look around you at the people you've been taught to hate, because hate is just a cloak that hides fear. — April White

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature. — Kelly Slater

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich. — G.K. Chesterton

I'm pretty sure if I stopped drinking for even one day, the accumulated hangover would probably kill me. — Sterling Archer

Glory in your weaknesses. Paul said, "I am going to boast only about how weak I am and how great God is to use such weakness for his glory."21 — Rick Warren

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different. — Gustavo Dudamel

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. — John Madden