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Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.
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People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.
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So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.
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Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.
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So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.
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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
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When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.
