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"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."
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"You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness."
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"I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that."
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"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."
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"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more."
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"Shyness is just egoism out of its depth."
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"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
Success
"Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there."
Man
"Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them."
Family
"I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did."
Life
"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."
Shyness
"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."
Character
"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."
Help
"And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one."
Music
"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
"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
War
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