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"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."
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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."
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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
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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."
Music
"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."
Sound
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
Music
"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."
People
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
Music
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
Change
"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."
Will
"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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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."
Art
"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
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