I Listen To Kids Play A Lot.

I Don't Feel That The Conductor Has Real Power. The Orchestra Has The Power, And Every Member Of It Knows Instantaneously If You're Just Beating Time.

There Is Nothing Like A Fine Italian Sound.

That's The Goal, To Survive Your Gift.

When You Play A Concerto With A Small Orchestra, You Don't Feel It Is As Important As Carnegie Hall. You Try To Work Out All The Little Problems. Once That's All Done, Trust Comes In.

Perhaps Our Task In This Shaky, Fast-changing, Bewildering World In Which We Live Is To Make Music, At First With All That We Have, And Then, When That Is No Longer Possible, To Make Music With What We Have Left.