I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.