Did you play? It sounded very good.

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 not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

Good fighting with you, Seaweed Brain." Ditto.

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.