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

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff