Slatkin And Co 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

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

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

Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York — David Levithan

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

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. — Howard Gardner

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

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

We need music to restore the human spirit — Leonard Slatkin

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

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

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

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

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea. — Michael Aspel

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

There are fewer metaphors around than people think. — Terry Pratchett

You do not own me. I do not own you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

To be born in a duck's nest in a farmyard is of no consequence to a bird if it is hatched from a swan's egg. He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him; for the great swans swam round the newcomer and stroked his neck with their beaks, as a welcome. — Hans Christian Andersen

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power. — Preston Brooks

Take it and be thankful. — Robin Jones Gunn

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

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

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that. — Donald Miller

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves. — Paul Bloom

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

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths. — Aeschylus

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

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

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

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

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

I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like. — Lisa Ling

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

This is the gate between the living and the dead", he said. "You are still living. The others on the grounds died very long time ago."
A chill ran through me. "And you?"
"Me?" The corner of his mouth twitched. "I rule the dead. I am not one of them — Aimee Carter

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

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries. — Anna White

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