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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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"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
Art
"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
"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
Experience
"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
Idea
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
Change
"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
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
Experience
"The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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Personal Development
"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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Personal Development
"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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Personal Development
"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."
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Personal Development
"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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Personal Development
"Your will to success supersedes all other wills."
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Personal Development
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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Personal Development
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