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"One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening."
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"I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through."

"Active listening requires being fully present and engaged in the moment."

"And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves."

"Heed Your Speed. Are you a fast or a slow talker? Be mindful towards the person with whom you are speaking to ensure that your message is being comprehended, understood, and absorbed. If they are listening at a slower rate than you are speaking, disconnect can occur."

"I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it."

"The ears and the heart are connected, it's true,for when ears open wide, the heart opens up too."
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"There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God."

"I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen."

"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development."

"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop."

"For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them."

"Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all."
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