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How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

As an older dad you can certainly get down on the floor. The problem is can you get up again?

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

"Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some."

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

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