With a project like 'Teachers Lounge,' you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right.
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?