Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
“When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.”
“All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.”