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"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
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"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."
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"In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster."
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"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
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"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."
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"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images."
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"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."
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"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
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"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."
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"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
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"W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K."
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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."
Character
"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
"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to."
People
"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?"
People
"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
"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."
Music
"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
Success
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
Disaster
"You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character."
Change
"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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