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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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"It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs."
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"Light is a masterpiece, but is of little value if you are blind."
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"There is a difference between a calling and an assignment."
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"We really can't afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in."
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"Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be."
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"Every day is exciting when you don't live your life based on religion alone."
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"Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision."
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"It's funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it."
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"If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance."
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"The point of good writing is knowing when to stop."
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"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
Music
"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."
Sound
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
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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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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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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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"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."
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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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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."
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