#he

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#allowed #also #devoted #every #felt

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#beautiful #beginning #clear #i #ideas

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant. ↗

— Richard Masur

#because #deaf #deafness #even #i

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#careful #celebrity #forget #gets #hand

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. ↗

— Diana Ross

#difficult #felt #greater #happiness #i

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community. ↗

— Richard Masur

#also #community #contact #deaf #deaf people

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance. ↗

— Richard Masur

#argue #better #could #demanding #duke

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#europe #first #graduated #i #laura

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break. ↗

— Richard Masur

#because #before #break #community #deaf

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#especially #go #high #high school #i