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"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
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"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes."

"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."

"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."

"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing."
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