"Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence."

-- Leonard Bernstein

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“you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.”
“My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.”
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

Source : Storm Jameson (1941). “The End of this War”
“I was cured all right.”
“That sense â€“ the only true patriotism â€“ comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature â€˜libertyâ€™ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.”
“It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.”
“Life is as serious a thing as death.”
“No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.”

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