Jeffrey Tate famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
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Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
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I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.
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So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
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I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
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In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.
-- Jeffrey Tate
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
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Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
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If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
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Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.
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