"Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic."

-- Samuel Beckett

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“Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.”
“Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.”
“In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.”
“You can be anything you want… But you must be strong first.”
“I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.”
“Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.”
“When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.”
“Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.”

Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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