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• ‟ Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

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• ‟ For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

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• ‟ Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.

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• ‟ Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

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• ‟ Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country.

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• ‟ I think music can change your life.

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• ‟ Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.

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• ‟ You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected.

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• ‟ I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

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• ‟ We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.

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• ‟ I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music.

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• ‟ For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

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• ‟ Though involvement in music and the arts can't cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide has the potential to help us reflect, at times, on the better angels of our natures.

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• ‟ Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about our feelings about questions of life and death. It goes absolutely beyond any kind of rules.

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• ‟ The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The music has everything, and you are there to find the balance when you conduct. You don't have to give too much of your individuality. It's Bach, so it's dangerous to get in the way.

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• ‟ Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.

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• ‟ The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood that human beings have to express themselves, through music, even at a bad level. All kids studied music automatically, just as they did maths or languages or sport.

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• ‟ I see, in this life, the hardship many suffer. I see the joy that music can give. How we deal with all this is part of a preparation for the next life.

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• ‟ It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped.

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• ‟ I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because my parents introduced me to Wagner's music very early.

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• ‟ Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop, and you can listen for four hours, five hours, six hours, and then you are like in his mystical hands of his music. He's such a great poet of music.

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• ‟ Anyone who loves football can also be involved in music; the two aren't mutually exclusive.

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• ‟ All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

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• ‟ As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.

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