The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

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.

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.

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

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

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

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