When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.