Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

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

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

You have to make peace with the fact that you have the right to be here, not because you have what it takes, but because your existence was authorised by the heavens.

Do others see something of Christ in your life? Do they see a “family resemblance” to Him by the way you live?

Pick the things you do in this day wisely.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

The land belongs to the people who work it.

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.