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Kurt Masur Inspirational Quotes (10)

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If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.
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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
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I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
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You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.
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If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
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You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
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I was different from most young conductors today.
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Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.
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And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.
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What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
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