Eugene Ormandy Quotes

• With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

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• Why do you always insist on playing while I’m trying to conduct?

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• Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

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• There is a shadow on every page.

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• The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

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• Let me explain what I do here. I don’t want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

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• It’s all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

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• It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

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• It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

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• If you don’t have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

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• I’m one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I’m just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

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• I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

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• I told him he’d have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

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• I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

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• I don’t mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

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• I can conduct better than I count.

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• Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

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• During the rests – pray.

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• Death is an awful thing. I don’t believe in it myself.

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• Beauty is less important than quality.

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Eugene Ormandy (20)

Birth:	18th November, 1899
Death:	12th March, 1985
Nationality:	Hungarian
Profession:	Violinist, Music Conductor

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