#som

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#contact #direct #direct contact #feel #i

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#best #classical #classical music #does #i

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#being #coach #conductor #director #editor

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#certain #concepts #demonstration #earlier #exciting

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#earlier #go #kid #kind #know

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#born #distribute #does #energy #equally

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#need #once #other #some #some things

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#always #any #bad #big #family

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#all day #anything #being #dawn #day

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

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