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"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
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"You're free to wear whatever you want, you know."
"Something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!"
"Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively."
"At any moment, you can use your face to open doors of opportunity if it demonstrates interest, enthusiasm, respect, understanding, delight, agreement, and more."
"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!"
"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth."
"When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry."
"If words are the truth, what is living for?"
"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."
"I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives."
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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."
"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."
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
"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."
"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do."
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