It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.