"It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this……" — Michael Tilson Thomas
"It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music."
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31 Quotes by Michael Tilson Thomas
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The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
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What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?
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Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has…
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Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right…
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You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
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The world changes when there's music in it.
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But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one…
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When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and…
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I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's…
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But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement…
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But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be…
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