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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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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
"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."
"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
"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."
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
"The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important."
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