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"The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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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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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."
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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."
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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
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"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
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"I was different from most young conductors today."
Today
"Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there."
Man
"Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them."
Family
"I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did."
Life
"The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own."
Music
"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."
Shyness
"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."
Character
"I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy."
People
"You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged."
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