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"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"The First Amendment is not without limits."
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"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
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"First of all - I only believe what I see."
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"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
Music
"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
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"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
Time
"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
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"The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music."
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"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
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"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
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