Famous Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible…

— Alexander McCall Smith

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct,…

— Andris Nelsons

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

— Leonard Bernstein

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you…

— Ruggiero Ricci

“To play in an orchestra, we need not master every instrument. We must simply learn to play our own. But first, we must learn…

— Vironika Tugaleva

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

— Peter Berg

Behind a great success, there was a great failure

— Michael Hermanto

The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers…

— Ralph W. Moss

All great success leads to a sacrifice.

— Star Ko

Our growth has been very fast but in every place we've gone, we've achieved great success.

— Miguel McKelvey

People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

— Earl Nightingale