I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

It's more about capturing an idea than about capturing a moment.

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.

Step forward, use your voice, get out in the world, and live!

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.

If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.