If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I was different from most young conductors today.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

I heard a guy tell me he liked cherries. I waited to hear if he was going to say "tomatoes", then I realized he like cherries just. That joke is ridiculous.

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

I don't know anything about baseball.

It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country.

Japan and Europe seem to have a little more cultural education and so the crowds have been a little more big and enthusiastic, and the places I've played seem a little more classy.

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.