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Leonard Bernstein

"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."

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"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."

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"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."

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"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."

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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."

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"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."

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"The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again."

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"In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm."

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"I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it."

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"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."

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"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
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