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"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."
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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."
Experience
"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"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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