Eugene Ormandy Quotes

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• Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.
• I can conduct better than I count.
• At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.
• Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
• It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
• I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.
• Intonation is important, especially when it is cold.
• Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them…
• If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.
• Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.
• Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.
• Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.
• Who is sitting in that empty chair?
• I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
• I conduct faster so you can see my beat.
• I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.
• I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.
• I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.
• I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.
• The next movement is still in the factory.

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