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.

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

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

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

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.