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"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."
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"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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"It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music."
Music
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
American
"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
Time
"I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so."
Music
"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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"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."
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"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
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"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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"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."
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