If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

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

It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys. Why waste your time, because most likely you're not going to be on that level anyway.

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

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.

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