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"When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there."
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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."
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"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."
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"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."
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"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
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"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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"This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened."
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"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing."
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"In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor."
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"Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether."
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"I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music."
Music
"No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music."
Music
"Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music."
Music
"Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language."
Aesthetics
"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing."
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"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent."
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"I distrust anything that you don't hear."
Distrust
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