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

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

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

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

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

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

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