Eugene Ormandy Quotes

• Beauty is less important than quality.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Beauty

• I’m one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I’m just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violinist, Boy, Lucky

• I don’t mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nervous, Self

• I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Manage

• Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Advise

• Death is an awful thing. I don’t believe in it myself.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Awful, Thing

• I can conduct better than I count.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self Appriciation

• During the rests – pray.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pray

• I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Wrote, Way

• It’s all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Principles, Flexible

• It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ensemble, Perfect

• It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Thought

• The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Notes, Self, Reply

• There is a shadow on every page.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shadow, Pages

• Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• Why do you always insist on playing while I’m trying to conduct?

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Question, Yourself

• With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonderful, Couple

• Let me explain what I do here. I don’t want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

  Eugene Ormandy

• If you don’t have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

  Eugene Ormandy

• I told him he’d have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

  Eugene Ormandy

Eugene Ormandy (20)

Birth:	18th November, 1899
Death:	12th March, 1985
Nationality:	Hungarian
Profession:	Violinist, Music Conductor

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