"Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market."

-- Skitch Henderson

#Orchestra Quotes

“Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you wonâ€™t heal till you do. You havenâ€™t yet.â€ They both knew that was true. â€œYou canâ€™t move ahead until you bury the past.”
“The only â€˜realisticâ€™ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the exception, with no taboos, no a priori norms (â€˜human rights,â€™ â€˜democracyâ€™), respect for which would prevent us from â€˜resignifyingâ€™ terror, the ruthless exercise of power, the spirit of sacrifice â€¦ if this radical choice is decried by some bleeding-heart liberals as Linksfaschismus, so be it!”
“Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.”
“He stole my music but he gave me my name.”
“The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.”
“We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient too. If people who are willing to put time into demonstrations also prove willing to work on behalf of candidates in local elections - or to become candidates themselves - they will achieve far more. If all of this upheaval provokes more involvement, then we have a slim chance of ending up with more vibrant democracies eventually. The alternative, as you've hinted, is that democracy fails altogether.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.”

Source : Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.143, University of Chicago Press
“The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.”

Source : "What's Up With All These Planes Landing At The Wrong Airport?" by Robert Bateman, www.esquire.com. February 10, 2014.

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