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The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.
I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
Think of your girlfriend or boyfriend or whomever you want to.
Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.
I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.
Passionate musicians only come from passionate five-year-olds.
Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.
When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.
I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.
The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.
What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.
Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.
Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.
So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.
Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.
We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters.
Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.
No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.
I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.
I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.
Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.