Eugene Ormandy Quotes
- Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.
- Brass, stay down all summer.
- Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.
- It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.
- We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.
- Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.
- Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.
- With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
- Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The…
- That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
- Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.
- Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.
- I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
- Beauty is less important than quality.
- There is a shadow on every page.