Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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