Adventurous Quote by Michael Tilson Thomas Download Open image “Being an American musician means being adventurous.” — Michael Tilson Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventurous Musician
Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more. — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it. — Jason Michael Berman Copy Share Image
It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor,… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music]. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them. — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that… — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that's it. I feel I should have holidays for my family's sake, but… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Create your environment from your best innate tenacity. Always embrace the abundance of an inspirational mentality. Eliminate distractions, clutter, and work from a place… — Joseph S. Spence Sr Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it. — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation. — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous,… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“Get to know who you are instead of waiting for some magical person to walk into your life and make you more adventurous, richer,… — Andrea Bain Copy Share Image
