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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."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."
"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
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"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
"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."
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
"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."
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
"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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