It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.

- Benjamin Zander

Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?

- Benjamin Zander

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

- Benjamin Zander

It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreamin…

- Benjamin Zander

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

- Benjamin Zander

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

- Benjamin Zander

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

- Benjamin Zander

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

- Benjamin Zander

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

- Benjamin Zander