I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!!

A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

one gud thing abut music if hits u fell no pain :p <3

I sold my soul for the second time, cause' the man don't pay me.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.