I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

In future, brainwave is a media of universal language.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

A mystery is solved with a story.

When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

So many people, so many amateurs like Donald Trump believe that "I don't recall" is an absolutely fail-safe position and you can't get caught in perjury.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

Wherever there is peace lacking, try to create it and put it there!

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.