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"Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist."
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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."
"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"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."
"They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home."
"The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work."
"So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers."
"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."
"What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent."
"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."
"You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another."
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