Herbert Karajan Quotes & Sayings

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose. — Bernard Brodie

In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that really counts is his quality as a human being. For music is created by Man for Man. And if someone sees nothing more than notes in it, this can perhaps be very interesting, but it cannot enrich him. And music should exist for one purpose only; to enrich Man and give him something he has lost in most respects. — Herbert Von Karajan

Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low — Herbert Von Karajan

My kids think I'm old and over the hill. — Simon Baker

A little saying I liked to live by: Keep your head, heels and standards high. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot. — Mackenzie Davis

It means a lot. It means I'm accountable. — Champ Bailey

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so. — Herbert Von Karajan

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome. — Mike Rosen

It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy. — Willa Fitzgerald

I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee ... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone ... Not on a committee. Not on a team. — Steve Wozniak

The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years. — Erik Qualman

If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why. — Herbert Von Karajan

Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow. — Caron Kamps Widden

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite. — Nelson Eddy

I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because you are allowed to do this thing.' By this I mean, they can do what millions of people cannot do. Many people cannot think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening. To be involved professionally in a thing as creative as this is a great privilege and we have a duty to make it in such a way that we can help bring pleasure and a sense of fulfillment to those who are not so fortunate. — Herbert Von Karajan

Baby, if I wanted to have you fired, I would. I want to fuck you, but not when you're being paid to be my date. — Sydney Landon

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time. — Sting

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated. — Herbert Von Karajan

He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough. — Herbert Von Karajan

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play. — Herbert Von Karajan

Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.] — George Herbert

You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you. — Andrew Wyeth