No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much..

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience..

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less..

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good..

I played with the best conductors of the world..

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance..

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer..

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad..