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"I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things."
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"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."
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"I just want to be rich and famous."
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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."
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"If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before."
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"Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good."
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"The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result."
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"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."
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"To be famous and broke is hard."
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"I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave."
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"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."
Character
"If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that."
Feelings
"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to."
People
"As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?"
People
"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."
Ideas
"The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own."
Music
"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
Success
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
Disaster
"You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character."
Change
"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
War
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