Kurt Masur Quotes

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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.
• What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
• 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…
• I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
• 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 have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
• I was different from most young conductors today.
• 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…
• 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…
• Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
• And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.
• 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…
• 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…
• Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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