Top 40 Slatkin Quotes
#1. I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'
Leonard Slatkin
#2. I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
Leonard Slatkin
#3. I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
Leonard Slatkin
#4. There is no way to tell if we are the pioneers of a visionary new age, whisking humanity into the high vibrations of an interdimensional love party, or post-modern Don Quixotes attacking techno-industrial windmills with our flimsy, rolled-up yoga mats.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#6. I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
Leonard Slatkin
#7. To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.
Leonard Slatkin
#8. Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.
Leonard Slatkin
#9. How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
Leonard Slatkin
#10. I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator ... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.
Leonard Slatkin
#11. I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.
Leonard Slatkin
#12. We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
Leonard Slatkin
#13. There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!
C.S. Lewis
#14. He pulled Tom closer to deepen the kiss; there were things that Balsaros craved that he could not inflict on Jon, and finally the drought was over.
Bey Deckard
#15. I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.
Jess Glynne
#16. The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
Leonard Slatkin
#18. One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.
George E.P. Box
#19. I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
Leonard Slatkin
#20. I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
Leonard Slatkin
#21. There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
Leonard Slatkin
#22. My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.
Leonard Slatkin
#23. I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.
Dick Francis
#24. Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.
Leonard Slatkin
#25. I feel the darkness near me; I feel the light shining. And more keenly I feel the contrast between the two.
Anne Rice
#26. Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
Frances Wright
#27. In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
Leonard Slatkin
#28. When a strong emotion is hitting you, it's like nothing else in the world matters and you forget to keep in mind that the emotion will pass. You forget that the strength of the present emotion does not necessarily have anything to do with its long term impact on you.
Anonymous
#29. Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.
Leonard Slatkin
#30. Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.
George W. Bush
#31. People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.
Leonard Slatkin
#32. The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.
Leonard Slatkin
#33. There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.
Leonard Slatkin
#34. The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.
Leonard Slatkin
#36. They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
Camille Paglia
#37. A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.
Leonard Slatkin
#38. An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.
Leonard Slatkin
#39. I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.
Leonard Slatkin
#40. To initiate the debugger, all you have to do is import the pdb built-in module and run its set_trace function. You'll often see this done in a single line so programmers can comment it out with a single # character.
Brett Slatkin
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