When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

I strike fear into you because I am a man?""It isn't funny.""I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life.

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.