"I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis."

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Source : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.102, Parrot Press

Anton Seidl

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“It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.”
“All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.”
“Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.”
“Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.”
“Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.”
“I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.41, Knopf
“Money is easy to hide.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.”

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