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Kurt Masur

"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."

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"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."

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Donna Grant

"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more."

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Donna Grant

"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."

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Donna Grant

"You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness."

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Donna Grant

"Shyness is just egoism out of its depth."

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Donna Grant

"I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that."

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Kurt Masur
"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."

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Kurt Masur
"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."

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Kurt Masur
"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to."

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Kurt Masur
"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?"

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Kurt Masur
"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."

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Kurt Masur
"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."

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Kurt Masur
"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."

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Kurt Masur
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."

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Kurt Masur
"You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character."

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Kurt Masur
"At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music."

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