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"If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief."
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"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."

"Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities."

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

"Don't wait for the opportunity, create it."

"Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats."

"No noble opportunity is small. Mind small opportunities with noble traits, though they may seem quite uncanny at first sight; in the mind, you shall wonder!"

"It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower."

"Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic."

"If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God's rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land."

"One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one."
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"You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things."

"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."

"The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form."

"And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away."

"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."

"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."

"Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today."
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