The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.

If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.