New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you.

Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.

If there's one thing I hate, it's not knowing what's wrong with someone and all you want to do is make them feel better.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.