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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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"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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"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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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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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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"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
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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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"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
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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."
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"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
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"Where there is darkness, there is chaos and confusion, but when light shines, things are set in order and the light rules and governs."
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"Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision."
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"The single right decision to take is to forget the past so that it does not mislead you at a later stage."
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"You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life."
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"Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none."
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"Every day is exciting when you don't live your life based on religion alone."
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"Not to have a confused church is to teach paramount importance of the truth."
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"He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can."
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"When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself."
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"Even if you know where you are going and what problems you have to solve, you may only know the nearest tasks and you may not understand completely all of your tasks."
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