I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.
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Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
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I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost complete cycle of orchestral works by Richard Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic.
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I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
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People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.
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The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
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