Let them do it. Go right ahead.

Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.

My point of view is very simple. I think war is no option. Trying to play the same note at the same time, with the same loudness, with the same color, with the same amount of joy, everything the same ... this is a fantastic affair.

I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.