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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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"He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together."
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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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"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
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"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to."
People
"I was different from most young conductors today."
Today
"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
"In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding."
Thought
"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
"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."
Famous
"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."
Shyness
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