What you create for you, no one can take from you..

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time..

I'm structured with time..

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems..

I'm too old to be forced..

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing..

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business..

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage..

Life's all about 'me' anyway.

I am not stroppy at all..

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets..

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant..

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK..

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've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes..

Education isn't something you can finish.

I follow the rules until I go against them all..

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular..

Music has always been in me..

The less inhibited you are the better..

That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially..