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"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."
"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
"Experience everything but cling to what is right."
"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
"Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details."
"The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience."
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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
"The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together."
"Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end."
"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."
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