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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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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."
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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."
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"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."
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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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"The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board."
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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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"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"
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"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."
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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."
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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
Music
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
Music
"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
Music
"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."
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"There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized."
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"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
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"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."
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"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."
People
"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."
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