But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

The way you survive in the performing arts is by having a sense of your audience, and doing things which entertain and satisfy the audience, but in a more important way, cause the audience to question many things.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

This extraordinary group has absolutely captivated my imagination, knocked my socks off - what more can I say?