One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!