Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

Anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor, & should entertain his guest generously.

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.