That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.