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"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
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"Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking. Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging. Jog in faith, and you will end up running. Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting. Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring."

"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"

"The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward."

"Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do."

"Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism " the tendencies of greed " the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust."

"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."
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"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been."

"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."

"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."

"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."

"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."

"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."

"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."

"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
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