"In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems."

--

Source : Zubin Mehta, Renate v Matuschka (2009). “Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life”, Hal Leonard Corporation

Zubin Mehta

#Symphony Quotes #Tone Quotes #Four Quotes

“It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him.”
“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
“Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.”

Source : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.108
“I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.”

Source : "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.
“[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.”
“That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure...”
“A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.”
“The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable, and unchangeable. Today, the U.S. dollar serves as the international medium of exchange, managed by Washington politicians and Federal Reserve officials, manipulated from day to day, and serving political goals and ambitions. This difference alone sounds the alarm to all perceptive observers.”

You may also like:

Daniel Barenboim
Pianist
Itzhak Perlman
Violinist
Jose Carreras
Performer
Lorin Maazel
Conductor
Luciano Pavarotti
Performer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Placido Domingo
Conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
Pinchas Zukerman
Violinist