The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

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.

Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.

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Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

I think sometimes, you have to pick your spots about when a game gets intense or when the game's outcome is pivoting in that moment.

Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.