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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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""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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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."
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"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."
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"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."
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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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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
"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."
First
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
Experience
"The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important."
People
"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."
Will
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
Music
"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
Idea
"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
People
"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."
Concern
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
Expression
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