Lorin Maazel quotes
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“I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.”
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“The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.”
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“In this world, there's even room for quality.”
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“As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.”
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“What our profession is all about is interacting with people.”
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“To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure.”
-- Lorin Maazel
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“I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.”
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“You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.”
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Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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