#phony

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#before #concert #conductor #deeply #first

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#beethoven #conductor #deep #heard #heroic

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#first #mine #new #piece #play

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#criticism #despise #european #film #film criticism

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#basically #become #company #demands #enormous

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#clutches #left #memories #phony #safe

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#assumed #else #everybody #everybody else #familiarity

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in. ↗

— River Phoenix

#commercials #i #just #like #me

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. ↗

— David Ives

#instruments #invent #less #more #only