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57 Conductor Quotes

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Beautiful Divine Heart Music
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Border Country Love Should
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

All Your Life Am Life Man
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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Act Acts Basic Complicated
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Capacity Care Deepest Feel
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You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

Children Make Must Work
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Cannot Humanity Leaves Live
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

First Life Purpose Purposes
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Also Composers Everyone Everywhere
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To retire is to die.

Retire To Die Death
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To retire is to begin to die.
Begin Die Retire
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Music will save the world.

Music Save Will World
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Art Interpretation Play Written
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Most Noticed Perfect Technique
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

Complex Cunning Heart His
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Down Heart Melody Never
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The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Another Been Beginning Child
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To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
World Whole Person Just
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To live is not enough; we must take part.

Live Enough Take Must
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

Think Old Love Admire
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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
Beauty God Kindness Love
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Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Because Talent Vain Happen
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.

Main Thing Afraid Human
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Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again

Second Moment Unique Each
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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
Every Wrong Seems Possible
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Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

According Breaking Dignified Everything
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Joy Things Us
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I write music with an exclamation point!

Exclamation Music Point Write
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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

Am Any Convinced Currents
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I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Abyss Am Beings Fond
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

Achievements Credited Drudgery Result
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I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Big Chain Cheap Deprive
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Also Anything Ask Change
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Imagination creates reality.

Creates Imagination Reality
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I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

Achieve Artistic Been Convinced
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I wish I could score everything for horns.

Could Everything Horns Score
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Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

Fish Go Where Wherever
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Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Better Music Musician Richard
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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Divorce Even Financially Getting
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Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
Being Everything Inner Lasts
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How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!

Absurd Become Christian Critics
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I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

Agitation Blood Both Brought
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I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

Around Constantly Distract Enough
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I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

Artist Brains Common Enjoy
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Life is earnest - and always has been.
Always Been Earnest Has-Been
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In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.

Any Centers Family Hereditary
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The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, as it were, to find his personal sacrifice repaid with ample interest through the might and greatness of his fatherland.

Above Ample Fatherland Find
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The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

Acts Measures Never Ourselves
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What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

Article Best Erect Forever
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It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

Pleasure Music Ease Grace
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