"Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!"

-- Arturo Toscanini

#Men Quotes #Doing You Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.”
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
“I get a bit nervous because I just want the show to go well. I think you always have to be a little bit nervous, or else you're a little checked-out, and that's maybe the time when you're not doing your best stuff, because you're kind of just checked-out and falling back on stuff.”
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.174
“I think Judas was a very devout religious Jewish person. He realizes that Jews had been persecuted and enslaved for thousands of years, and he wants to keep his people from going through that anymore.”

Source : "THE LEADING MEN: Josh Young and Paul Nolan, Jesus Christ Superstar's Judas and Jesus". Interview with Michael Gioia, www.playbill.com. March 22, 2012.
“The Pentagon's lost entire countries.”
“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those ***** crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

You may also like:

Bruno Walter
Conductor
George Szell
Conductor
Giacomo Puccini
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Herbert von Karajan
Conductor
Leopold Stokowski
Conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Riccardo Muti
Conductor
Vladimir Horowitz
Pianist