Quotes for All
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, Ah Maestro, you are a genius! Paderewski tartly replied, Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod! What … Read more
I said to Mr. Pavarotti once … a marvelous man and a great artist … I said to him … \”Maestro, I’m having trouble closing out a note so that it’s almost as thin as a butter knife … finish it out quietly like that.\” I said, \”I have trouble doing that. What do you … Read more
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude. Bette Greene
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman’s baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both. Alan Blinder
Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it … Read more