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Music Quotes
Quotes on music and creative calling.
These quotes describe music as near-constant background for some, and as a true calling for others - one line simply states a feeling of being destined for it. A few discuss resisting one narrow sound in favor of exploring many styles. Related reading includes Funny Quotes.
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- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
- Nov 07, 2020
Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
- Fulfilment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
- Professionalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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- Nov 07, 2020