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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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"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!"
"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!"
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
"I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it."
"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."
"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."
"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."
"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."
"I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so."
"If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage."
"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
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