Jeffrey Tate Quotes

Jeffrey Tate

English Musician

Born: Apr 28, 1943

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I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness. Jeffrey Tate

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy. Jeffrey Tate

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I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium. Jeffrey Tate

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People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me. Jeffrey Tate

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence. Jeffrey Tate

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