Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

You opinions about me does not change who I am.

In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

I would do Winnie the Pooh. We would live in the tree house. We would hunt for honey.

If it were up to me we'd ban them all.

Life protracted is protracted woe.