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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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"I listen to music constantly while writing."
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"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
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"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."
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"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
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"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
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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."
Time

"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."
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"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."
People

"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
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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"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."
Will

"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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 Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
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"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
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