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My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

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Michael Tilson Thomas

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

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If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

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Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.

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Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

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I have a strange situation as far as my name is concerned, because of course, what should my name really be? Is it my traditional Jewish name? Or this curious name my parents put together, partially to honor departed family members, and partially to keep me away from the absolute craziness of my grandparents' fame and the intrusiveness of their fans? So many people call me "MTT," and some do say, "Oh Maestro," and some are comfortable calling me Michael.

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The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

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