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"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
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"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."
"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."
"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
"I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background 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 say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."
"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious."
"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."
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"Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with."
"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood."
"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."
"The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations."
"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
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