Joshua Quotes

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.

It's hard to say I don't like being famous, but how I feel is that I don't see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

I want to do everything. That's my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

Generally, I love traveling because it's great to see new places.

I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that's not just a health issue, but I'll be knocked off that king's stool.

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His direct will, which is good and perfect with no evil in it.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

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