I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The solitary trombone was left to his own devices; but as he wisely confined himself to the notes with which he was thoroughly familiar, such as A flat, D and F, and was careful to avoid all others, his success in the role was almost entirely a silent one.

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.