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"This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy."
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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
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"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."
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"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
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"I had to do something for the country."
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"Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton."
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"Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy."
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"Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."
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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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"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."
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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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"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."
People
"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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"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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"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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