Maazel Quotes

#1. Fearing servility, people become servile.

Nawal El Saadawi

#2. Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

Andre Balazs

#3. We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

Brad Pitt

#4. I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.

Fiona Maazel

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

Lorin Maazel

#6. The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Do you believe God's whole world runs by the laws of the few sciences we have been able to discover? Oh, no, Christine, there is more. But people are satisfied. They know so much, they think they know all. And that makes it easy for Nosferatu. That makes it easy for all the devils.

Lincoln Maazel

#8. 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

#9. Little moments nostalgia
does not have to extol, because they were already nice to begin with.

Fiona Maazel

#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. We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.

Peter Cosgrove

#12. If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

D.L. Moody

#13. 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

#14. We didn't need dialogue; we had faces.' It's what Thurlow used to say on days they spent staring at their newborn. Ida on that play mat with the arches overhead, groping for toys, gumming the fur, and them on either side, on their stomachs, watching the world dilate in her eyes.

Fiona Maazel

#15. 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

#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