"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."

Progress, Day, Understanding

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"If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers."

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"We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress."

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"Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished."

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"Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure."

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"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."

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"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."

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"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."

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"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."

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"The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself."

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"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."

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"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."

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