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"Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter."
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"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music."

"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."

"The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form."

"I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity."

"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."

"Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter."
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"But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow."
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"The world system is employment."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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