Slatkin Quotes & Sayings

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things. — Leonard Slatkin

There's no other product that changes function like the computer. — Jonathan Ive

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat. — Leonard Slatkin

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism. — Meir Soloveichik

People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II. — Leonard Slatkin

As the applicant pool grows, the exact place to draw the line between looking and leaping settles to 37% of the pool, yielding the 37% Rule: look at the first 37% of the applicants,* choosing none, then be ready to leap for anyone better than all those you've seen so far. — Brian Christian

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism. — Bette Davis

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. — Leonard Slatkin

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.' — Leonard Slatkin

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit. — Leonard Slatkin

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American. — Leonard Slatkin

Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority. — Dorothea Dix

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV. — Leonard Slatkin

We need music to restore the human spirit — Leonard Slatkin

To initiate the debugger, all you have to do is import the pdb built-in module and run its set_trace function. You'll often see this done in a single line so programmers can comment it out with a single # character. — Brett Slatkin

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. — Leonard Slatkin

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time. — Leonard Slatkin

In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people. — Leonard Slatkin

God's love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move. — Billy Graham

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers. — Leonard Slatkin

I want to make it clear before we begin that I think your purpose is to learn and mine is to help you to learn, or to make you learn, though I doubt either of you has to be made. I have very little interest in writing out progress reports on you, or sticking to form charts, or anything else that interferes with our basic purposes. If there is anything you want to learn and have the necessary background to handle, I'll be ready to help you whether or not it is something that formally falls among the things I'm supposed to teach you. If you don't have the background, I'll help you get it. In return, I want you to do something for me. It's been many years since I was last a tutor, so I expect you to point out to me when I fail to observe some ritual that Mr. Quince holds essential. Fair enough? — Alexei Panshin

Well, thank you. I do exercise in fact I am an exercise freak. Can't do without my regular work out. I'm not letting you in on any more of my secrets! — Natasha Henstridge

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. — Paul Kagame

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with. — Leonard Slatkin

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium. — Leonard Slatkin

The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling. — Leonard Slatkin

Greg: Scott, great horde.
My realization was that I could never *actually* live a life where I had to be constantly doing things like praising a dude's horde.
So that made me feel better about myself. — Jesse Andrews

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? — Leonard Slatkin

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. — Karen Maezen Miller

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness. — Charles Spurgeon

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family. — Leonard Slatkin

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before. — Leonard Slatkin

I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either. — Leonard Slatkin

My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around. — Leonard Slatkin

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress. — Leonard Slatkin

I'm all about 'I'/ Give the rest of the vowels back — Lil' Wayne

I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator ... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault. — Leonard Slatkin

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations. — Leonard Slatkin

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big. — Leonard Slatkin

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still. — Eve Plumb

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces. — Leonard Slatkin

On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964. — Leonard Slatkin

The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon. — Leonard Slatkin