Riccardo Muti Quotes

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.

I could sway people with words—words that welled up within me.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.