No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
Of course, experience strengthens one later.
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.
Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?
I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.
We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.