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More basses, because you are so far away.
We need music to restore the human spirit
The next movement is still in the factory.
I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.
Always the journey, never the destination.
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.
The world changes when there's music in it.
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
Of course, experience strengthens one later.
Dont bring a candlelight vigil to a gunfight
I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.
I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.
I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!
Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
In this world, there's even room for quality.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.
I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.
That's the way it was every time I studied it.
No woman is worth the loss of a night's sleep.
To lose your temper is only useful once a year.
Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.
We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.
My job is to awaken possibility in other people.
how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.
I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.
Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.
I was different from most young conductors today.
Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.
I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
I know this music from memory, not from the music.
Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.
When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.
Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.
I have eaten very well in Los Angeles. Marvelously!
Being an American musician means being adventurous.
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.
Intonation is important, especially when it is cold.
What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?
It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.
Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?