So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

There seemed nothing to do but live.

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

Where are Bernie Sanders' supporters today? They were openly toyed with and defrauded.

Brave, bold people, these are what we want.

No, nothing can change my world --Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.