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"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance."
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"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean."

"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."

"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do."

"One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
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"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."

"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."

"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."

"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
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