I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.
Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.
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.
Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.