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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"I listen to music constantly while writing."
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"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."
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"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."
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"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."
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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."
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"Beauty of music enlightens the soul and fills it with ecstasy."
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"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."
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"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
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"I want music, I don't want stupidity, (Hey)... (mey)... I don't give a shit, so far it sounds like stupidity changes tracks and it's on the track and it waits to appear!"
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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."
People
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
American
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
Experience
"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
"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
Harmony
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
Music
"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."
Idea
"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
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
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."
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