At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I was different from most young conductors today.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.

Grant is the beginning of the Patent Game, not its end.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

Most things that are politically right are morally wrong

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.