My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

It is music's lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart

We look dead, ... but I guess we don't feel dead.

You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.