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"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."
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"The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about."
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"My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her."
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"Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that."
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"Butch hesitated. "Annabeth's okay. You gotta cut her some slack. She had a vision telling her to come here, to find a guy with one shoe. That was supposed to be the answer to her problem.""What Problem?" Piper asked."She's been looking for one of our campers, who's been missing three days," Butch said. "She's going out of her mind with worry. She hoped he'd be here.""Who?" Jason asked."Her boyfriend," Butch said, "A guy named Percy Jackson."
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"The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle."
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"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."
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"Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them."
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"I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common."
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"In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime."
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"Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now."
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"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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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."
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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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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 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."
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"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."
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"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
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