A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

I do not remember the most challenging one but I remember that many of the titles I have recorded have been quite challenging for me.

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.