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When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.