#ear

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#beethoven #children #conducting #day #different

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#conducting #house #i #i remember #imagination

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core. ↗

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

#deep #heart #his #prayer #sends

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#better #children #communities #demonstrate #drop

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#change #decades #dime #driving #haven

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#actor #chicago #elementary #elementary school #funny

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#chose #clear #diagnosis #frustrating #having

I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#am #announcements #appearances #campaign #enormously

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#caught #depressed #die #down #ear

I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.' ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#god #gonna #hottest #i #kind