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• ‟ Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

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• ‟ Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

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• ‟ I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

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• ‟ Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

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• ‟ Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

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• ‟ Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

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• ‟ Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

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• ‟ In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.

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• ‟ I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

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• ‟ I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

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• ‟ I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

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• ‟ You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

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• ‟ An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

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• ‟ For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

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• ‟ I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

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• ‟ When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

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• ‟ I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.

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• ‟ The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

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• ‟ I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

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• ‟ I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

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