Eugene Ormandy Quotes
"Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Want)
"Beauty is less important than quality."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Beauty, Quality)
"Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Death)
"During the rests - pray."
- Eugene Ormandy
"Even when you are not playing you are holding me back."
- Eugene Ormandy
"I can conduct better than I count."
- Eugene Ormandy
"I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to."
- Eugene Ormandy
"I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar."
- Eugene Ormandy
"I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already."
- Eugene Ormandy
"It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Thought)
"It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect."
- Eugene Ormandy
"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."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Boys, Play)
"It's hot as hell as can be."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Hell)
"The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"There is a shadow on every page."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Shadow)
"Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears."
- Eugene Ormandy
"Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?"
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Trying)
"With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Wife, Man)
"It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Money, Principles)