James Levine Quotes

• As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

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• Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

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• I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

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• I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

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• I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

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• If you factor in not just who’s doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

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• More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I’m still amazed at the number who aren’t and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom’s got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

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• My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.

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• Second, if you’re the boss, just because they don’t ask doesn’t mean your employees don’t have needs.

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• We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

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• When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that’s relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

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• Where my tastes in music are concerned, I’m a real maximalist.

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• Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

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• It wasn’t that I ever knew I’d be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.

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• Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

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• Nobody regrets this more than I do.

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• The more I work on his pieces, I find that their fundamental life energy is irresistible, and it increases. It’s such marvelous music, with such personality, thought and care and detail. We have a number of very marvelous composers, but to see Elliott at this age so enthusiastic, wanting to do it and being able to do it, is amazing.

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• I’d rather they come an hour before and read the program notes, so that they have some slight introduction to what they’re going to hear. Then I recommend the most important thing of all. Listen, don’t fight.

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• I find it always sad when there’s something that means a lot to me in music and there are people who can’t get the exposure to it ever to understand it, let alone love it.

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• Art has never been a popularity contest.

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James Levine (46)

Birth:	23rd June, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Conductor, Pianist

About

James Lawrence Levine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is an American conductor and pianist. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 1964 and joined the American Conductors project connected with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He is primarily known for his tenure as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, a position he held for 40 years. He has also held leadership positions with the Ravinia Festival, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1980, he started the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program and often works to train promising singers, conductors, and musicians for professional careers.

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