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"I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly."
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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
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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."

"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."

"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."

"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."

"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."

"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."

"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."

"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
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