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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."
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"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
"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
Music
"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
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
Experience
"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
Idea
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
Change
"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
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
Experience
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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