James Levine Quotes

• You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

  James Levine

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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.

  James Levine

  Topics in Father

• Women tend to have recognition and peer group support – recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They’re more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

  James Levine

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  Tags in Expressing, Tend, Peer Group, Support

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

  James Levine

  Tags in Concerned, Tastes

• 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.

  James Levine

  Tags in Ought, Relatively, Sensation, Interpretive, Technical

• What’s interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.

  James Levine

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  Tags in Interesting, Percentages, Struggling, Difference

• We’re in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

  James Levine

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  Tags in Revolution, Midst

• 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.

  James Levine

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Issue, Employees, Solutions

• They’ve really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.

  James Levine

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Recognize

• There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

  James Levine

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  Tags in Orchestra, Gestures, Relationship

• The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don’t feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.

  James Levine

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  Tags in Bringing, Invisible, Acknowledged, Issues, Dilemma, Problem, Comfortable

• So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

  James Levine

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  Tags in Caring

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

  James Levine

  Tags in Negotiating, Couples, Amazed, Kicks

• It’s just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

  James Levine

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  Tags in Function, Orchestra, Rehearsed, Possible

• 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.

  James Levine

• It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is – like Verdi said – working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra’s collective qualities emerge.

  James Levine

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  Tags in Expression, Qualities, Orchestra, Maximum, Verdi, Style

• 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.

  James Levine

  Tags in Spend, Factor

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

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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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