Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.
The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.