Riccardo Muti Quotes

#1. I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.

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#2. I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

Maynard James Keenan

#3. I don't think they get paid very much, because they never stay very long. But they should get a million dollars. What they do is really hard, and I don't think most folks get that. It

Sharon M. Draper

#4. The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.

Roberto Benigni

#5. Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he'd become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.

Gary Ponzo

#6. The moment you think you have charisma, you are finished.

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#7. College makes you smart. It doesn't make other people stupid. I'm not so sure it makes you so smart, to have a second say.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#8. A conductor should guide rather than command.

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#9. You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

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#10. When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

Robert Adams

#11. Happiness manifest when the ordained is realized

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

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#13. You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

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#14. Don't be silly. There's nothing disappointing about magic.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

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#16. It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

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#17. The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

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#18. Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#19. One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

Marty Rubin

#20. Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.

Tucker Carlson

#21. I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.

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#22. Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

Jason Giambi

#23. I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

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