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Herbert von Karajan

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"If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.
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On why he preferred conducting the w:Berlin Philharmonic to the w:Vienna Philharmonic
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Herbert von Karajan in Brian Moynahan, 'Funeral in Berlin', The Sunday Times, 30 January 1983, quoted in Norman Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes.

 
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