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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."
"I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that."
"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more."
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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."
"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."
"I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things."
"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."
"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."
"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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