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"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
"He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous."
"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."
"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
"Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will."
"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."
"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
"I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance."
"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."
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"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances."
"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."
"The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations."
"Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light."
"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation."
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