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

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

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

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

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

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

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