"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."

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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."

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"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

"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."

Clarity

"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."

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"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."

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"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."

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"Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course."

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