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"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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"The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case."
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"I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform."
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"If you have no job, help is needed."
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"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."
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"When you desire to help, you will find a way to do it."
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"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."
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"Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help."
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"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."
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"Be the help you seek from others."
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"When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways help."
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"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."
Character
"If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that."
Feelings
"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to."
People
"As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?"
People
"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."
Ideas
"The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own."
Music
"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
Success
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
Disaster
"You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character."
Change
"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
War
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