"Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course."

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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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"The First Amendment is not without limits."

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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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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."

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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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"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."

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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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"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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"I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so."

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