Quotes by Kurt Masur - Page 1

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Kind
Shy
Shyness
Overcame
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An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Disaster
Orchestra
Stars
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I was different from most young conductors today.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Different
Today
Young
Conductors
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Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Conductor
Enough
Young
Confident
Conductors
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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Opportunity
War
Concerts
World
World War Ii
World War
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And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Conductor
Enough
Grows
Strong
More And More
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And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
People
Stars
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If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Teacher
School
Two
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I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Conductor
Orchestra
Play
Together
Enough Together Always
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You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Character
Different
Mind
Orchestra
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I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Character
Habit
Mind
Habits
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At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Age
Doctors
Pianist
Thinking
Age Music Me
Doctor
Finger
Organist
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I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Orchestra
People
Reception
Shy
Walking
Me People Walking
Me Shy People
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And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Age
Impressed
Orchestra
Symphony
Concert
Deeply
Symphony Orchestra
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Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Orchestra
People
Player
Please
Speaks Out
Good Enough People
Good People Sometimes
Confident
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Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Guy
Laughed
Musician
People
Stuttering
Family Me People
Young Guy
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And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Understood
Meaning
Meaning Of
Philharmonic
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I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Study
Life Believe Must
Life Believe I Believe
Beethoven
Composed
Piece
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If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Debussy
Instance
Japan
Light
Play
Beethoven
Different Way
Mozart
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You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Conductor
Helping
Musician
Shy
Cooperate
Talented
Encouraged
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As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?
Kurt Masur / Conductor
New York
New Beginnings
People
Me People New
Discover
New Beginning
Philharmonic
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In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
America
Conductor
Heroic
Misunderstanding
Pieces
South America
Symphony
Beethoven
Piece
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Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Men
Happy Man
Taste
Trying
Discover
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Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Beautiful
Ideas
Orchestra
Play
In The Beginning
Main
Piece
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The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Teacher
Add
Devoted
Pieces
Allowed
First Thing
Organist
Piece
The First Thing
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I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.
Kurt Masur / Conductor
Famous
Berlin
Library
Mistake
Musical
Notes
Printed
Mistakes
Beethoven
Full
Discovered
Wrong
Dynamic
False
Scores
Understandable
Worked
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