You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a con….

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers..

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, ….

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't….

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Bee….

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she play….

And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to..

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more..

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II..

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should n….

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot ….

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with m….

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character..

I was different from most young conductors today..

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness..

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character..

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk ….

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success..

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster..

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor..

As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would the….