Claudio Abbado famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not even a real noise: a breath, a trifle of a sound. You have the same thing in music: if in the score there is a pianissimo marked that ends in nothing. Up thee you can feel this 'nothing'. With an orchestra it is very difficult to achieve it. The Berlin Philharmonic manage it sometimes.
-- Claudio Abbado -
Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.
-- Claudio Abbado
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Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.
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There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
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Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by....
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Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.
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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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