Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

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.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

Smile, just because you're alive and enjoying the magic of life.

Morality is a personal matter.

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that we sing out loud the message, 'Love forever.'