There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Mikolay and Julia live in the same neighborhood and go tothe same school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues.

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

...he who goes down to the grave does not return.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.