Stokowski Leopold Quotes & Sayings

It seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence an excitable body which a sudden change can throw from the best into the worst state. Patience I must now choose for my guide, and I have done so. Divine One, thou lookest into my inmost soul, thou knowest it, thou knowest that love of man and desire to do good live therein. — Leopold Stokowski

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull. — Burt Reynolds

If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities. — Frederick Lenz

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it. — Leopold Stokowski

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing. — Doug Duncan

On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo. — Leopold Stokowski

It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself. — Grant Morrison

I just inherited a ghost dog. Duke was in the back seat, his head hanging out the window. — Deanna Chase

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. — Leopold Stokowski

Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction ... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. — Leopold Stokowski

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry. — Leopold Stokowski

The sprouting of a green and flourishing tree from the earth is as wonderful an event as the sudden emergence of a camel from the earth and its starting to walk on its surface. People are wonder-struck by the second type of incident, though the more wonderful incidents are always happening on the earth without their learning any lesson from it. Almighty God wants man to notice the extraordinary but hidden aspects of ordinary events. In the events happening in the chain of cause and effect, he should be able to observe the direct role of God. Those who display this high degree of insight are the ones who will be treated as having faith in God and the ones who will be blessed with the eternal grace of God. — Anonymous

Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous. — Leopold Stokowski

Oh what fools we mortals are. — William Shakespeare

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right. — Ernie Banks

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself. — Leopold Stokowski

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing. — Leopold Stokowski

I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of Nature, the lovability of people, everything that excites us, everything that starts our imagination working, LAUGHTER, gaiety, strength, heroism, love, tenderness, every time we see - however dimly - the godlike that is in everyone and want to kneel in reverence. — Leopold Stokowski

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well. — Haile Gebrselassie

Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart ... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression ... its range is without limit ... forever growing ... can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man. — Leopold Stokowski

Sometimes when one cannot stand the story or novel one
is working on, it helps to write something else - a different
story or novel, or essays venting one's favorite peeves, or exercises
aimed at passing the time and incidentally polishing up
one's craft. The best way in the world for breaking a writer's
block is to write a lot. Jabbering away on paper, one gets
tricked into feeling interested, all at once, in something one is
saying, and behold, the magic waters are flowing again. Often
it helps to work on a journal, since that allows the writer to
write about those things that most interest him, yet frees him
of the pressure of achievement and encourages him to develop
a more natural, more personal style. — John Gardner

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die — Nikki Giovanni