An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.