This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.