"Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist."

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"Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist."

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"Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility."

Culture, Responsibility

"When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before."

Work, Public

"Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it."

People, Office, Software

"More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad."

Father, Dad, Home, Mom, Negotiation

"There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do."

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"It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that."

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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility."

"When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before."

"Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it."

"More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad."

"There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do."

"It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that."

"Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist."

"I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest."

"I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight."

"Art has never been a popularity contest."

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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"You can cage the singer but not the song."

"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."