"Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people â€¦. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience."

-- Leonard Rose

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.”
“The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.”

Source : Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.23, 1st World Publishing
“On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I believe in what I'm singing, but they shouldn't be fooled because we all have fake selves and it's in there somewhere. It's not pretending to hurt somebody; it's just something that comes out of me, from my experience.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.”
“There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.”
“People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.”
“Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society.”

Source : Speech at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, at the Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, July 05, 2007.
“It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.”

You may also like:

Bruno Walter
Conductor
Eugene Ormandy
Conductor
Franz Schubert
Composer
George Szell
Conductor
Glenn Gould
Pianist
Gregor Piatigorsky
Cellist
Isaac Stern
Violinist
John Corigliano
Composer
Leonard Bernstein
Composer