Lorin Maazel Quotes

#1. In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

Deborah Keenan

#2. What our profession is all about is interacting with people.

Lorin Maazel

#3. There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

Don Meyer

#4. Kmart is incredibly supportive of the Hispanic community and is therefore an ideal partner for my exclusive collection.

Thalia

#5. I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

Lorin Maazel

#6. I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?

D.J. MacHale

#7. Sometimes, you're just looking for something that's right.

Renee Carter

#8. By an army of savage chipmunks. Leo was so scared that

Rick Riordan

#9. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

Wendell Berry

#10. To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct ... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure.

Lorin Maazel

#11. As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.

Lorin Maazel

#12. When I was a wee little kid," remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Elvis Presley

#14. The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

Lorin Maazel

#15. Tracer was a good guy, but Ruthie didn't understand how one individual could smoke the amount of pot he did and still function.

Jennifer McMahon

#16. In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

Lorin Maazel

#17. In this world, there's even room for quality.

Lorin Maazel

#18. A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.

Robert Spencer