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• If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about…
• The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
• What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?
• Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something…
• Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to…
• You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
• The world changes when there's music in it.
• But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us…
• When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it…
• I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with…
• But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding…
• But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of…

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