Jeffrey Tate quotes
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“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”
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“Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.”
-- Jeffrey TateSource : "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
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“I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.”
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“So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.”
-- Jeffrey TateSource : "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
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“I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.”
-- Jeffrey TateSource : "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
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“In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.”
-- Jeffrey TateSource : "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'". interview with Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
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“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”
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“If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.”
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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.”
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“Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.”
Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.”
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