Karajan Quotes

#1. A blah is a terrible thing to waste!

Nigel Tomm

#2. Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low

Herbert Von Karajan

#3. The Internet is in cyberspace, but we" - he paused for effect - "are in meatspace, get it?" Opening

Matthew Mather

#4. Every student should know that statues are meant for sitting. If we're to endure their terrible old faces leering at us, the least they can do is offer shade or a comfortable perch.
Nigel Bristow to Max McDaniels

Henry H. Neff

#5. Children who experience anxious or ambivalent attachments to their primary caregivers may "fall in love" too easily, seeking extreme closeness right off the bat and reacting intensely to any suggestion of abandonment.

Adam Cash

#6. I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

Luciano Pavarotti

#7. If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.

Herbert Von Karajan

#8. I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.

Tahyna Tozzi

#9. Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.

Katherine McNamara

#10. I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

Steven Van Zandt

#11. Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

Herbert Von Karajan

#12. He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough.

Herbert Von Karajan

#13. Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Frank Moore Colby

#14. The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.

William Graham Sumner

#15. No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

Herbert Von Karajan

#16. The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Herbert Von Karajan