"I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside."

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Source : "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

Laurence Equilbey

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“We ran as if to meet the moon.”
“The water is this marvellous blue. Itâ€™s so blue that once you see it you realise youâ€™ve never seen blue before. That other thing you were calling blue is some other colour, itâ€™s not blue. This, this is blue. Itâ€™s a blue that comes down from the sky into the water so that when you look in the sea you think sky and when you look at the sky you think sea.”
“To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all--it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.”
“I always felt people who took themselves seriously were kind of boring.”

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“I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.”

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“I don't like talking about myself; I like to let the music be the spokesperson for me. So doing a memoir and all that chronological 'and then this happened and then blah blah' doesn't appeal to me that much. I think there's more mystique in what you don't know about.”
“I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.”
“The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences.”

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