#music

And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#berlin #discovered #dynamic #false #famous

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

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It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

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Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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Music is the best way for me to say I love you. ↗

— Mireille Mathieu

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Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

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