I Love Conducting. What I'm Tired Of

Every Great Work Of Art Has Two Faces, One Towards Its Own Time And One Towards Future, Towards Eternity.

I Always Maintain That Playing In An Orchestra Intelligently Is The Best School For Democracy. If You Play A Solo, The Conductor And Everybody In The Orchestra Follows You. Then, A Few Bars Later, The Main Voice Goes To Another Instrument, Another Group, And Then You Have To Go Back Into The Collective [sound]. The Art Of Playing In An Orchestra Is Being Able To Express Yourself To The Maximum But Always In Relation To Something Else That Is Going On.

Music Means Different Things To Different People And Sometimes Even Different Things To The Same Person At Different Moments Of His Life.

I Have The Greatest Respect For The Survivors Of The Holocaust. We Can't Even Imagine What These People Went Through.

Now The First Step Has To Be Taken, The Step Towards Democracy. This Step Is Full Of Risks, And Requires Trust On All Sides. We Don't Know Where It Will Lead. But If We Just Stand Still, We Will Have No Chance Of Escaping The Violence.