After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.

There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.