Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

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.

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

Write it down in your own handwriting.

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Strange is our situation here upon earth.

Midian is where the monsters go.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.

She's the gal in the red blue jeans.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.