- Destination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never studied, but I had the best teachers.
- Conductors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played with the best conductors of the world.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.
- Big Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very deep religious belief.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020