The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.