Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.”
“Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.”