Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

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

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.

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

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

If you are always worried about the outcomes of your future, then it's time to surround yourself with the right people who would push you harder than you have ever pushed yourself.

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

Sometimes the real action in a conversation takes place in the pauses, when nothing at all is being said.

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.

The business of government is justice.

My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.