I’m so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can’t play great music unless your heart’s been broken.
BENJAMIN ZANDEREverybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
More Benjamin Zander Quotes
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Live the rest of your life in possibility
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The major difference between the ‘best’ and the ‘average’ is that the ‘best’ get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
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Who am I being that my players’ eyes are not shining?
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When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”
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I have a definition of success.
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The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.
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How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?
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Everybody loves classical music they just don’t know about it yet.
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Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it.
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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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It is the tuning of the universe… It’s as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.
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It’s not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.
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It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream. Of course, I’m not sure they’ll be up to it.
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In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
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The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
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