maestro QUOTES

1 " He’s focused on something—or someone—over her shoulder.
The harmonious warbling of the rainforest morphs into organized disarray, as if a primitive maestro has thrown conducting to the wind and let Mother Nature take over. Birds trill a warning as the breeze rustles the plant life. Wings flutter overhead. A crescendo of stridulation changes tempo, the insects seemingly performing a sonata as the rhythm shifts yet again.
“What—who is it?” Summer asks in a strained whisper.
His gaze lands on her, his brows furrowing. “The Forsaken. "

― Laura Kreitzer , Burning Falls (Summer Chronicles, #3)

2 " The Maestro spoke again. " When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it. "

3 " Every craft is a self portrait of the maestro who does it. Autograph your work with greatness. "

4 " Juliet by Ann Fortier. The Maestro (Chapter5) ... the slight nausea he was feeling must be somewhat near what God was feeling every minute of every day. If indeed He felt anything. He was, after all, a divine being, and it was entirely conceivable that divinity was incompatible with emotion. If not, then the Maestro sincerely pitied God, for the history of mankind was nothing more than a long tale of tears. "

― Anne Fortier

5 " ... the slight nausea he was feeling must be somewhat neat what God was feeling every minute of every day. If indeed He felt anything. He was, after all, a divine being, and it was entirely conceivable that divinity was incompatible with emotion. If not, then the Maestro sincerely pitied God, for hte history of mankind was nothing more than a long tale of tears. (From " Juliet" thought by The Maestro. Chapter 5) "

6 " All Americans were immigrants at one point or another,” he explained in his letters to his parents.
Even his father Manuel migrated to Puerto Rico. Manuel was deemed a Peninsular, an immigrant from Spain, and sometimes even the Puerto Rican-born, the criollos, resented the Spanish-born newcomers. Manuel was familiar with being singled out, although not quite as much as Antonio felt while in New York.
“It is amazing how people tend to forget their past,” Antonio wrote to his parents, surprised. “I recall what you told me about Maestro Rafael, Papá, when he said to you ‘never forget your history. "

― Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini , Antonio's Will

7 " Logically, when Maestro Gott some years ago, after an especially cruel critic had compared him to " a zombie who causes acute depression to innocent radio listeners" , decided to stop performing in protest, the situation was considered so grave that the Minister of Culture himself went to console the deeply insulted star. "