There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

I don't need their understanding, but my daughter will--and I hope the minds of her peers are wide open with vibrant hues of passion. i hope they paint the world with color.

Gin and tonics won't say "I love you" and neither will he.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.

We want a strong, growing economy

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.