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" Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music. "

David Ogden Stiers

Fun

Music

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You

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David Ogden Stiers

Ears

Concert

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David Ogden Stiers

You

Television

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" The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen. "

" I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go. "

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Out

Worth

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