Quotes from David Ogden Stiers

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.

I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.

I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.