Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

The Angry Face" cannot deliver the knowledge correctly often!

I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.

You are like a global market. You can't hide yourself from global customers! Make a global exposure of your dreams and you will achieve global success!

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I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!