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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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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."
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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."
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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."
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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
Music
"I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so."
Music
"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."
Clarity
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
Experience
"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."
Idea
"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'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
Change
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
Music
"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
People
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
Experience
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