Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.

The choice of courage is the confident in JESUS CHRIST.

At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.

When you choose to work with a willing, happy heart, you become a beautiful source of joy to all.

All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.

Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.