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.

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

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.

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

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

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