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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
- Fulfilment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
- Another Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
- Exactly The Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at that level, we have to keep on adding energy, or otherwise, the object falls to the ground. It's exactly the same thing with the sound.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every note is a lifetime for itself.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020