Eugene Ormandy Quotes

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

I've been told that no one knows what happens in the future on 'Game of Thrones.' To my knowledge, I've shot one episode. So I'm as excited as anyone else to find out what happens.

Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

Predictions are preposterous.

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative.

Predicting the future is very difficult. As a historian I have trouble trying to predict the past.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

I was petrified about 'I'm in You.' I couldn't wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

Projections are just bullshit. They're just guesses.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.

I wonder who is going to finish second.