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"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
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"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."
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"You can certainly take the easy road and use the predictable and boring defaults like: How are you doing? How about this weather? What do you do for a living? Hi. My name is _________. What's yours? Blah, blah, blah, blah . . .Break out of the defaults you have been using for years. Shake it up. Make it fun. Make it memorable. Dive in with more engagement and interaction. Taking the initiative to be more creative will help you build a bridge to close the gap."
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"There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can."
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"Write your sacred story."
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"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
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"Some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other."
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"I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores."
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"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."
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"Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There--you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand)"
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"Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively."
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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
Music
"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."
Music
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
Expression
"I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so."
Music
"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."
Clarity
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
Experience
"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."
Idea
"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
Art
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
Change
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
Music
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