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"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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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."
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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."
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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."
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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
Music
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
Music
"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."
Music
"The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music."
Music
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
Expression
"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."
Music
"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."
People
"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."
Clarity
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
Experience
"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."
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