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

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.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

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