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.
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.
I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.