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"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
"The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself."
"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."
"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."
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
"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."
"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
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