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"That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions."
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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."
"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."
"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."
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"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive."
"I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season."
"Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do."
"The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences."
"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
"Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate."
"That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions."
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