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"There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat."
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"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."
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"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."
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"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them."
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"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist."
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"The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately."
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"We want to raise the art of living well."
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"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."
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"A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives."
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"In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film."
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"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
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"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
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"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."
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"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
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"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
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"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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"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."
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"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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"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."
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