Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.