"Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense."

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Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.

Georg Solti

#Nonsense Quotes #Wagner Quotes #Specialists Quotes

“[Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you won't even know what diaper rash is...shoot, I seen ladies rub it under they eyes and on they husband's scaly feet...Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle....And after all that, it'll still fry your chicken.”
“Something tells me my spit wouldn't mean as much to Corr as yours would." There's a long Pause before Sean speaks. He says, "Maybe not yet." Yet! I don't think I've ever heard such a fine word before.”
“Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?”
“A conversation isn't a competition.”
“People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.”
“As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.”

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“And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.”
“We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.”

Source : Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.86, Penguin

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