There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven. ” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
Look, here are we on this starry night staring into space, and I must say I feel as small as dust lying down here.