Jeffrey Tate Quotes

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

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.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

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.

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.