We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

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.

You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies.

If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

This is a pretty shitty flash mob. It's in my living room, only my family showed up, and they're just telling me to stop drinking.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing.