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"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"
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"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works."
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"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."
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"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
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"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line."
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"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
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"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
Music
"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
Poetry
"Nature has different times."
Nature
"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
Music
"I think we're all pretty odd."
Pretty
"I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race."
Race
"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
Shakespeare
"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
Music
"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater."
Extreme
"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance."
Performance
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