Charles Hazlewood famous quotes

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.
-- Charles Hazlewood

#Motivation #Believe #Inspiration

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
-- Charles Hazlewood

#Betrayal #Long #Enemy

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!
-- Charles Hazlewood

#Hate #Fighting #Piano

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
-- Charles Hazlewood

#Trying #Lenses #Phrases

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.
-- Charles Hazlewood

#Short Life #Fire #New Life

The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.
-- Charles Hazlewood

#People #Perspective #Community

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.