Although I Hardly Ever Turn On The

Conducting Is A Strange Thing To Teach.

Actors Want To Do Shakespeare Again And Again, Or Want To Do Hamlet. When You Hear One Guy Do Hamlet And Another Guy Do It, It's Going To Be A Whole Different Experience.

We Live In The Least Ugly Time In History. If You Look At Back When Beethoven Was Writing, Half The Kids Were Dying, Mothers Were Dying At Childbirth, There Were More Wars Going On Then Than There Are Now. People Wrote The Most Beautiful Things During The Ugliest Times.

Over The Years, I've Collected A Lot Of Musical Friends.

I Think If There's Ever Been A Time We Need Music More, It's Now. For Our Kids, It Teaches You To Take Time, To Listen, To Work Together, To Listen To Other People, And To Use Your Brain. That's Why Classical Music Doesn't Work When You Throw It At People In A Subway Platform While They're Rushing To Work. Classical Music Is Something That Needs To Be Contemplated, You Have To Be Completely Present With An Active Mind That's Working. It's Not Background Music.