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"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."
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"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
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"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line."
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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."
Music
"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."
Sound
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
Music
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
Music
"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."
Will
"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
Time
"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."
Music
"The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music."
Music
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
American
"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
People
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