Quotes By James Levine
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.
James Levine
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.
James Levine
The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.
James Levine
You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.
James Levine
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
James Levine
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.
James Levine
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.
James Levine
It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.
James Levine
If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.
James Levine
It's 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.
James Levine
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.
James Levine
Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.
James Levine
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
James Levine
It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.
James Levine
But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.
James Levine
When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.
James Levine
My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.
James Levine
What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.
James Levine