Harold C. Schonberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.
-- Harold C. Schonberg

#Music #Night #Lasts
Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.
-- Harold C. Schonberg

#Discipline #Littles #Self Discipline
By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.
-- Harold C. Schonberg

#New York #Musician #Reviews
There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that sets the standards, the city in which all who have anything to do with the arts dream of working and succeeding.
-- Harold C. Schonberg

#Dream #Country #Art
When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.
-- Harold C. Schonberg

#Size #Grudge #Grows

I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.

Harold C. Schonberg famous quotes

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