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Orchestra Quotes by Eugene Ormandy
- 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.
- Think of your girlfriend or boyfriend or whomever you want to.
- Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.
- Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
- Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.
- It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.
- The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.
- I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
- It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.
- Someone came too sooner.
- Start three bars before something.
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