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"I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time."
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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

"We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger."
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"There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God."

"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development."

"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop."

"For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them."

"I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day."
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