Funny quotes from Herbert von Karajan

  

Herbert von Karajan (April 5, 1908 – July 16, 1989) was one of the most famous Austrian conductor. 


Here are some quote from him:




"I can play with my seventy strings a pianissimo which is much, much more subtle than a chamber orchestra's."


"If you start with almost nothing, people concentrate much more on hearing you. Then when the outbreak comes, it makes a far greater impact."


"No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so."



"Sometimes, when I listen to some of my old recordings, I envy painters who can simply burn the pictures they don't like. I cannot."

 


Do you know Karajan was born at Salzburg same city as Mozart? Their house just opposite across the river! In front of Karajan's house has Karajan statue with baton action stand face to Mozart house. 

Karajan's Birthpalce, Salzburg
Karajan went to Mozarteum Conservatory, Salzburg, to study music.
Find more about Karajan check here http://www.karajan.org

Mozart Geburtshaus is Mozart's birth place at Salzburg, Austria. Mozart was born here on January 27, 1756. His family lived here from 1747 to 1773. Today, this place is a museum where present some of Mozart's instrument such as violin and harpsichord. Mozart's house become one of the tourist destination of Salzburg city.

The address of this place is Getreidegasse 9 5020 Sakzburg.

Funny VDO : Victor Borge as conductor

Victor Borge as conductor.

Funny VDO : Mickey Mouse & Friends, The Band Concert (1935)

Mickey Mouse & Friends - The Band Concert (1935)
While Mickey Mouse was conducting William Tell oventure,Donald duck, as ice-cream seller, try to interupted by playing flute,Turkey in the Straw.

Funny quotes from great conductors(2)

"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
By Bernard Haitink , Dutch conductor



"Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives."
By Bruno Walter, German conductor




"If I have an orgasm, its good music."
By Leonard Bernstein, American conductor




"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way."
By Arturo Toscanini, American conductor




"I don't want to repeat this a hundred times. When you see crecendo it means p."
By Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor



"The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong."
By Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor

Funny VDO : Musical Conductor comedy sketch

A hilarious comedy sketch from BBC comedy showcase 'Comedy Shuffle'.

Funny quotes from classical music composer

“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.”
By Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer



"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."
By Gyorgy Legeti , Hungarian composer



"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
By Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer



"If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder."
By Walter Damrosh,German composer and conductor, Talked about Aaron Copland, American composer



"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
By Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer

Funny quotes from great conductors.

"Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience."
By George Szell



"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
By Leonard Bernstein



"If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong."
By Simon Rattle


“Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!”
By Arturo Toscanini



"Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace."
By Leonard Bernstein



“When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.”
By Leonard Bernstein



“Everything is written in the score. Except from the really important things.”
By Gustav Mahler