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

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

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.

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