Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.