"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."

--

Source : "Haitink lays down operatic baton on his 75th birthday". Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2004.

Bernard Haitink

#Thinking Quotes #House Quotes #Opera Quotes

“There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.”
“Employing...nutrition and vitamin therapy...one of the nation's largest alcoholism treatment programs reports a 71% success rate. This contrasts with...(a) national...rate (of) 25% as reported by NIAAA.”
“I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.”

Source : Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. January 8, 2009.
“I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?”
“We contend that ideas and/or practices may be scriptural as long as they are not condemned by scripture.”
“One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.”
“Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

You may also like:

Anton Bruckner
Composer
Claudio Arrau
Pianist
Colin Davis
Conductor
Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
Georg Solti
Conductor
Gustav Mahler
Composer
Lorin Maazel
Conductor
Pierre Boulez
Composer
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Conductor