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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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"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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"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."
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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
"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
"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
War
"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."
Play
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
Disaster
"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
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