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"Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course."
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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."
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."
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"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
Change
"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."
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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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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."
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"With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically."
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"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."
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"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."
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"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."
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"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."
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"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."
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"My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood."
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