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"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
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"The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't."
"At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall."
"I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids."
"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."
"I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time."
"The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about."
"But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before."
"I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music."
"I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
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