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"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
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"The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending."

"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."

"I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God."

"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust."

"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it."
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