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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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"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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"I don't want to take away anybody's religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means."
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"A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance."
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"Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred, agree to be bright!"
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"Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind."
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"The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music."
Music
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
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"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
Time
"I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so."
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"If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage."
Experience
"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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"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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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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"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."
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