Quotes by Jeffrey Tate - Page 1

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Conducting
Healthy
Profession
Speaking
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So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Bits
Little Bit
Littles
Participating
Bit
Observe
Rather
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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Music
Behavior
Expression
Human Behavior
Perfect
Quartet
String
String Quartet
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On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
New York
Musical
Prestigious
Come And Go
Edge
Grounds
York
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I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Baton
Conductor
Gravity
Handle
Center
Puts
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If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Amazed
Cycles
Stamina
Ring
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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.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Ambient
Profession
Surgery
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Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Pianist
Schubert
Associated
Beethoven
Imply
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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 refused to pay the premium.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Exam
Past
Pay
Premium
Refused
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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 easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Atrophy
Harsh
Opera
Orchestra
Slowly
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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 middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Careers
Conductor
Fashion
Thinking
Wilderness
Bang
Middle Age
Thinks
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People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Conducting
Eternal
Me People Feel
Me People Connection
Amateur
Connection
Professionals
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I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Conductor
Fiery
Huge
Hysteria
Mahler
Musical
Sincerity
Type
Prefer
Develop
Fast
Hurry
Spans
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I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Conducting
Lungs
Profession
Rehearsal
Stairs
Breath
Climb
Frequently
Speaking
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What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I think that's a fantastic thing. In Europe, being principal conductor means merely that you're the person who does most of the concerts. For me, that simply isn't enough.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
American Music
Appeals
Concerts
Fantastic
Involvement
Orchestra
Principal
Music Community Me
Merely
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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 a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Acoustics
Europe
Fifth
Germany
House
Opera
Opera House
Orchestra
Size
Towns
Two
Unusual
Connection
Dozens
Hamburg
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