No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough.

If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

I don't want anybody shooting, but I can't stop it.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person