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

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

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

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

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.