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Kurt Masur

"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to."

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"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to."

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"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
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"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."
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"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."
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"I was different from most young conductors today."
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"Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them."
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"I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things."
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"At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music."
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"If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that."
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"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
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"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."
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