In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

Everyday, Jay would sit under a giant elm tree and imagine the adventures his life might bring.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

Anything coach Babcock needs me to do, I'll do it and if it's face-off well, I'm willing and ready to do that obviously.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

You want to look younger... rent smaller children.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.