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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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"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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"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"
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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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"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
War
"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."
Play
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
Disaster
"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
"I was different from most young conductors today."
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"And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor."
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"Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra."
People
"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."
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