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• ‟ When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

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• ‟ I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

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• ‟ My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

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• ‟ I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

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• ‟ The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

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• ‟ The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

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• ‟ The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

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• ‟ In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

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• ‟ Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

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