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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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"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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"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'm famous. That's my job."
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"Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns."
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"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."
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"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."
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"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."
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"King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in."
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"The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships."
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"In Germany I am not so famous."
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"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
"At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music."
Age
"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
War
"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."
Character
"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."
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"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
"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
"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
"Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra."
People
"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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