I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.

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

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.

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

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.