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"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."
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"Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!"

"If you can say it... it's obvious."

"Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none."

"It's funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it."

"If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance."

"You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life."
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"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."

"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."

"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."

"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."

"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."

"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."
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