Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

I think we're all pretty odd.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.