"When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time."

-- Michael Tilson Thomas

#Years Quotes #Europe Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.”
“Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.”
“We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ronnie James Dio from Sep 19, 2013
“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.”
“Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.”

Source : Interview with Julia Edelman, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2013.
“Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.”
“The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.”
“Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!”

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