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"I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest."
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"It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge."

"Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs."

"Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out."

"As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation."

"We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do."
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"If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them."

"The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured or valued by men who still possess it."

"That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it."

"The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time."

"I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest."

"Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other."

"Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key."
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