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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."
"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."
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary 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."
"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
"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."
"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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