I know this music from memory, not from the music.

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.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.