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Kurt Masur

"And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor."

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"And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor."

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Akiroq Brost

"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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Akiroq Brost

"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

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Akiroq Brost

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

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Akiroq Brost

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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Akiroq Brost

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

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Kurt Masur
"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."

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Kurt Masur
"Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there."

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Kurt Masur
"Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them."

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Kurt Masur
"I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did."

Life

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Kurt Masur
"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."

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Kurt Masur
"You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged."

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Kurt Masur
"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."

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Kurt Masur
"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."

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Kurt Masur
"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."

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Kurt Masur
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."

Disaster

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