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"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim."
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."
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"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
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"The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself."
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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
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"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
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"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
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