This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

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

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.