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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
Think you have a low opinion of government? You should see government's opinion of you!
Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?
I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.
When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.
I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.
If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.
You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.
The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.
If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.
One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.
It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.
So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.
I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.
The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.
On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.