You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

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

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.