#som

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#birds #bubbles #comes #country #delicate

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#francisco #i #important #just #mostly

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