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"This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy."
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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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"Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy."
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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"Those who own the country ought to govern it."
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"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days."
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"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
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"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler."
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