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"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."
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"Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
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"The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them."
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"I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."
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"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"
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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."
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"Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."
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"There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it."
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"It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity."
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"I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together."
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"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
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"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."
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"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
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