Best 24 quotes of James Levine on MyQuotes

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.