The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring conformity.
It’s always the question that involves the listener. It’s never the answer.
Time is the thing. Time is the essential piece of interpretation.
There’s no glory for a robot. Do your own thing.[to Eliot]
Our only home is the podium. We all live out of a suitcase.
If you want to dance the mask, you must service the composer.
What is the effect? What is it actually doing to me? Good music can be as ornate as a cathedral or bare as a potting shed so long as it allows you to answer both those questions.
Now is the time to conduct music that actually requires something of you. Music that everybody knows but will hear differently when you interpret it for them.
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If you have any real interest in conducting, you need to be able to speak your mind.
