Leopold Stokowski Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
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“As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.”
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“Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.”
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“On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.”
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“Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.”
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“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.”
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“I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.”
-- Leopold Stokowski
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