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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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"A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too."
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"Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous."
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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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"I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash."
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"I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."
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"I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous."
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"I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous."
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"You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!"
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"To be famous and broke is hard."
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"Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good."
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"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
Success
"Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there."
Man
"Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them."
Family
"I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did."
Life
"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."
Character
"You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged."
Help
"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
"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
War
"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."
Play
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
Disaster
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