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"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do."
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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."
"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."
Will,
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
"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."
Idea,
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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