Mozart in the Jungle Quotes: Adapted from Blair Tindall’s book Mozart In The Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classic Music, the series tells the crazy life of a professional oboist living in New York and behind the scenes of the music world.
Mozart in the Jungle Quotes
1- “Dear maestro, I’m sorry but if you can’t stand tears, you should stay away from the opera.” -Alessandra
2-“Do you know what made the music beautiful? The orchestra.” -Rodrigo de Souza
3-“Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable.” -Betty Cragdale
4-“Everyone believes they are a great singer in the shower.” -Alessandra
5- “Great art, it sometimes needs a little destruction.” -Thomas Pembridge
6- “If there is no music, there is no family.” -Rodrigo de Souza
7- “If we don’t talk about the music, then we’re never gonna get good.” -Rodrigo de Souza
8- “If you want to play like a God, you better eat like one.” -Rodrigo de Souza
9- “It’s a crime to make musicians pay the rent.” -Rodrigo de Souza
10- “Only naive people are cynical.” -Rodrigo de Souza
11- “Opera is supposed to be sad. So is love.” -Alessandra
12- “Sometimes, when we lose our way, we must return to the basics. That’s where the beauty lies.” -Rodrigo de Souza
13- “No life without death.” -Thomas Pembridge
14- “The difference between the best and the second best is how bad you want it.” -Hailey Rutledge
15- “The heir to the throne must always kill the king.” -Thomas Pembridge
16- “The only people scared of mortality haven’t died yet.” -Mozart
17- “Hailey, oboists are a rare commodity these days. Strings, on the other hand, we’re like hyenas fighting over the same dead animal.” -Cynthia Taylor
18- “The course of the conflict isn’t determined by the person who initiates but by the person who responds.” -Duncan
19- “We are notes in this beautiful concert of existence. If we don’t play ourselves, nobody will.” -Rodrigo de Souza
20- “Music, indeed, is nothing. It’s just vibrations that travel through the air. We connect it with our emotions and with everything that we like or dislike. That’s when music becomes something.” -Rodrigo de Souza
21- “The highest cliff you can fall from is trust.” -Rodrigo de Souza
22- “The music is not in the notes but in the silence between them.” -Rodrigo de Souza
23- “We are notes in this beautiful concert of existence. If we don’t play ourselves, nobody will.” -Rodrigo de Souza
24- “With closeness and familiarity, there comes disrespect.” -Rodrigo de Souza
25- “You always have to keep your instruments very close.” -Rodrigo de Souza
26- “You should only listen to yourself. That’s your only job, really, as an artist. Even if you’re completely wrong, that’s what an artist does, listen to one’s self.” -Rodrigo de Souza
27- “Carpe Diem, because next diem there’ll be nothing to carpe.” -Dee Dee
