"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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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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Herbert von Karajan
1908 – 1989
österreichischer Dirigent
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