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.

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

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

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

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

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

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