Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
“Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.”
The World Motivation
Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
“Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.”
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“Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.”
“The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.”
“This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.”
“With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.”
“There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.”
“Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.”
“I definitely believe in a higher power.”
“Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.”
“People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.”
“I feel much better when I am positioned higher. It's not that I'm bad in midfield, but rather that I would need more time to get used to it.”
“The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.”
“I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.”