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"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."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
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"If you give, you will be blessed."
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"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."
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"Fearlessly use the power of your will & determination to go forth in life, strengthened."
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"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
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"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."
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"Work usually follows will."
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"The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out."
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"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
Music

"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
Sound

"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
Music

"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
Music

"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 underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
Music

"The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music."
Music

"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
American

"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
People

"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
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