Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Death is the reward for living

If God grace can only come through slaughtering animals, then their is no need of god.No one is above t humanity.

If you fail to treat the current time you have wisely and with care, it’ll judge you tomorrow harshly since it came to you but you mistreated and abused it.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.

I like to see life with its teeth out.

if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.