Music Has Just As Much To Do

After 30 Years I Have Realized The Greatest Pleasure I Can Get Is To Have Learnt.

There Will Have To Be Times When I'm Not Conducting Because I'm Composing. I Haven't Solved That Problem, And Perhaps I Never Will.

Los Angeles Is Just A More Open Place. The Way L.a. Functions Is That People Give You A Forum. They Say, Show Us What You Can Do.

It Would Be Very Tempting To Say That Why Paint Because We Have Michelangelo, We Have Leonardo [da Vinci], We Have All These Guys. Why Waste Your Time, Because Most Likely You're Not Going To Be On That Level Anyway.

Classic Music Somehow Changed, And It Changed Between The First And The Second World Wars, And Somehow What Happened Was That The Hero That Had Been The Composer, The Hero Now Was The Performer, And Especially The Conductor.