#lot

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

It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to connect very well in this time. I think of all the millions of people in Los Angles. There aren't that many millions of people in all of Sweden. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#chance #city #connect #had #i

Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#ask #because #certain #go #going

The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#been #case #films #hollywood #i

I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#i #i do #i love #like #lives

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#because #drama #good #like #lot

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun. ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#any #approaching #asking #autograph #comes

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best. ↗

— Carla Bley

#band #best #between #big #big band

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

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial! ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#angelou #behalf #day #dial #foot