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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
It’s amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Music is the soul of language.
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.