Itay Talgam famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.
-- Itay Talgam

#Motivation #Inspiration #People
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?
-- Itay Talgam

#Musician #Minimum Wage #Opera
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?
-- Itay Talgam

#Taken #Example #Generations
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
-- Itay Talgam

#Art #Two #Special
If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.
-- Itay Talgam

#School #Reality #Organization
Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps
-- Itay Talgam

#Art #Creativity #Gaps

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.
One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Itay Talgam famous quotes

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