Jeffrey Tate Quotes

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• The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
• Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
• I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I…
• So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
• I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with…
• In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town…
• Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could…
• I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
• On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

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