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• This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
• A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night,…
• To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
• The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his…
• Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
• I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
• In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured…
• Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
• From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
• The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
• I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that…
• Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

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