It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

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I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

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