I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.
This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.