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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."
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"Music awaken our soul."
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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."
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"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."
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"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."
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"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."
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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
"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."
People
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
Music
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
Change
"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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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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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."
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"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
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