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"If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
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"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."
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"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
Experience
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
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."
Idea
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
Expression
"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
Art
"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
First
"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
People
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
Change
"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
Sound
"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
Music
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