"But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.“


-Michael Tilson Thomas

posted in communication


But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me."

-Michael Tilson Thomas

trustView Quote
"They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build."

-Michael Tilson Thomas

relationshipView Quote
"But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean."

-Michael Tilson Thomas

architectureView Quote
"How sweet it is!"

-Jackie Gleason

migrate3View Quote
"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."

-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

migrate3View Quote
"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."

-Laurence J. Peter

migrate3View Quote

More Quotes About communication

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people."

-Cherrie Moraga

communicationView Quote
"Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."

-Rockwell Kent

communicationView Quote
"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."

-Oliver Evans

communicationView Quote
"Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication."

-Sylvia Sidney

communicationView Quote
"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."

-Richard Rosen

communicationView Quote
"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality."

-Cliff Shaw

communicationView Quote