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

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

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

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.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

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