When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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.
I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.
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.
Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a concept, you try to inspire them, and it's actually exhausting.
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.