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

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.

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.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.

I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.

Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state.

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.

This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying] the Product Sharing Agreement.