"It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it."

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Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.

Gustavo Dudamel

#People Quotes #Chance Quotes #Classical Music Quotes

“It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.”
“Even ivory towers need central heating.”

Source : Breyten Breytenbach (1996). “Memroy of Birds in Times of Revolution”
“About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.”
“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”
“Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.”
“Corporate organization in American business and commerce was already well under way by the time Abraham Lincoln became president. But all the evidence from his pre-war lawyering days is that he had little objection to the rise of corporations. As a state legislator, he had strongly favored the creation of an Illinois state bank, as well as sponsoring the chartering of public/private corporations like the Illinois Central Railroad.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.”
“There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.”

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