#stand

You don't have to know anything about music to understand what I write. Mine are simple melodies. ↗

— Harry Warren

#anything #i #i write #know #melodies

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer. ↗

— Danny Masterson

#another #boss #communicate #easier #how

And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#i #i think #important #important point #like

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#berlin #discovered #dynamic #false #famous

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

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. ↗

— Richard Masur

#deaf people #difficult #most #people #profoundly

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#done #finally #i #mother #never

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#i #i can #image #integrate #mouth

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#anyone #haven #henry #him #his

I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#around #artist #center #come #context