Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

If you lose the power to love, you lose the ability to live.

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind.

I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.