I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

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.

What right do we have to dream of another world, if we can't take care of this one.

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.