I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.